TITLE: Relating to customer choice for school districts served by municipally owned electric utilities and electric cooperatives.

SUMMARY: Relating to customer choice for school districts served by municipally owned electric utilities and electric cooperatives.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to customer choice for school districts served by municipally owned electric utilities and electric cooperatives. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 40, Utilities Code, is amended by adding Section 40.061 to read as follows: Sec. 40.061. SCHOOL DISTRICT UTILITY CHOICE. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a school district served by a municipally owned utility that has not chosen to participate in customer choice shall, within the certificated retail service area of the utility, have the right of customer choice as if the utility had chosen to participate in customer choice. SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 41, Utilities Code, is amended by adding Section 41.064 to read as follows: Sec. 41.064. SCHOOL DISTRICT UTILITY CHOICE. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a school district served by an electric cooperative that has not chosen to participate in customer choice shall, within the certificated retail service area of the cooperative, have the right of customer choice as if the cooperative had chosen to participate in customer choice. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.