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Amend SB 3 as follows:
Subchapter Z, Chapter 402, Local Government Code, is amended
by adding Section 402.911 to read as follows:
Sec. 402.911. DUTIES OF WATER SERVICE PROVIDER TO AN AREA
SERVED BY SEWER SERVICE OF CERTAIN POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS. (a) This
section applies only to an area:
(1) that is located in a county that has a population of
more than 1.3 million; and
(2) in which a customer's sewer service is provided by a
municipality or conservation and reclamation district that also
provides water service to other customers and the same customer's
water service is provided by another entity.
(b) For each person the water service provider serves in an
area to which this section applies, the water service provider
shall provide the municipality or district with any relevant
customer information so that the municipality or district may bill
users of the sewer service directly and verify the water
consumption of users. Relevant customer information provided under
this section includes the name, address, and telephone number of
the customer of the water service provider, the monthly meter
readings of the customer, monthly consumption information,
including any billing adjustments, and certain meter information,
such as brand, model, age, and location.
(c) The municipality or district shall reimburse the water
service provider for its reasonable and actual incremental costs
for providing services to the municipality or district under this
section. Incremental costs are limited to only those costs that are
in addition to the water service provider's costs in providing its
services to its customers, and those costs must be consistent with
the costs incurred by other water utility providers. Only if
requested by the wastewater provider, the water service provider
must provide the municipality or district with documentation
certified by a certified public accountant of the reasonable and
actual incremental costs for providing services to the municipality
or district under this section.
(d) A municipality or conservation and reclamation district
may provide written notice to a person to whom the municipality's or
district's sewer service system provides service if the person has
failed to pay for the service for more than 90 days. The notice must
state the past due amount owed and the deadline by which the past
due amount must be paid or the person will lose water service. The
notice may be sent by mail or hand-delivered to the location at
which the sewer service is provided.
(e) The municipality or district may notify the water service
provider of a person who fails to make timely payment after the
person who fails to make timely payment after the person receives
notice under Subsection (b). The notice must indicate the number of
days the person has failed to pay for sewer service and the total
amount past due. On the receipt of the notice, the water service
provider shall discontinue water service to the person.
(f) This section does not apply to a nonprofit water supply or
sewer service corporation created under Chapter 67, Water Code, or
a district created under Chapter 65, Water code.