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14 Document(s) [ Subject: Public%20Utility%20Regulatory%20Act ]

Committee:	House Regulated Industries
Title:	Interim Report
Subjects:	Accounting | Broadband infrastructure | Economic development | Electric utility deregulation | Emergency management | Internet | Public Utility Regulatory Act | Telecommunications | Telecommunications fees and taxes | Telecommunications infrastructure |
Library Call Number:	L1836.80 R265
Session:	80th R.S. (2007)
Online version:	View report [17 pages  File size: 8,483 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Examine the impact of broadband Internet access on economic development, focusing on potential updates that would create incentives to help spur investment by network providers across a variety of platforms. Recommend changes to Texas law that would emphasize economic development through policy formation.
2.	Study and assess the ability of entities regulated by the Public Utility Commission of Texas to meet the communication needs of the Texas military forces during declared emergencies, including an assessment of current capabilities and technological compatibility among service providers throughout the state.
3.	Research the effects of both wholesale and retail competition in the Texas electric market.
4.	Study and review information on the Internet and other communications services, and how Texas can best prepare for potential changes to Internet and communications services, and infrastructure demands. Recommend policy changes to encourage greater infrastructure investment while ensuring the continued growth and development of the Internet. Study the current state and local communications tax structure, including an analysis of the tax burdens imposed on consumers and providers of communications services.
5.	Study and examine whether Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) should be adhered to under Chapter 66 of the Public Utility Regulatory Act (PURA), and review procedures for revenue audits.
6.	Monitor agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction, including identifying possible ways to merge or streamline agency functions to produce long-term financial benefit to the state and better efficiency of the agencies.
Committee:	Senate Economic Development, Interim
Title:	Interim report - Telecommunications and insurance
Library Catalog Title:	Report on telecommunications and insurance.
Subjects:	Homeowners insurance | Insurance industry | Insurance, Texas Department of | Liability | Long distance telephone service | Managed care | Open records requests and decisions | Patients' rights | Public Information Act, Texas | Public Utility Commission of Texas | Public Utility Regulatory Act | Racial discrimination | Telecommunications infrastructure | Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund | Telephone deregulation | Telephone service |
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 ec74t
Session:	75th R.S. (1997)
Online version:	View report [308 pages  File size: 12,707 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Study the effect of property insurance form deregulation, as addressed in SB 1499, 75th R.S., passed by the Legislature during the 1997 regular session, on the affordability and availability of homeowners insurance.
2.	Monitor the implementation of SB 386, 75th R.S., passed by the Legislature during the 1997 regular session, regarding managed care liability, including the development of the rules and standards governing the certification, selection, and operation of independent review organizations.
3.	Study and assess the effectiveness of HB 2128, 74th R.S., passed by the Legislature during the 1995 regular session, including but not limited to: the deployment of an advanced telecommunications infrastructure in Texas; the development of competition in the local telecommunications market in Texas; and the use of the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund in improving the capabilities of Texas schools, libraries and public hospitals. In its evaluation, the Committee should identify any remaining barriers to the development of full competition in the telecommunications market in Texas and make recommendations, if necessary, for any legislative or regulatory action.
4.	Review the process used by the Texas Department of Insurance and the Attorney General in making determinations regarding public disclosure of insurance data and, if necessary, make recommendations to streamline and standardize the process.
5.	Review and make recommendations, if needed, to clarify what insurance market-related data should be in the public domain and what information should be considered proprietary data to preserve competition. This review should consider both statistical data and underwriting guidelines.
Committee:	Senate Electric Utility Restructuring, Interim
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Report to the 76th Legislature.
Subjects:	Air quality | Alternative energy | Electric Reliability Council of Texas | Electric utility deregulation | Electric utility rates and charges | Electric utility stranded costs and refunds | Electricity transmission and distribution | Environmental protection | Providers of last resort | Public Utility Regulatory Act | Renewable energy | Wind energy |
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 el25
Session:	75th R.S. (1997)
Online version:	View report [213 pages  File size: 8,279 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Study and determine any needed changes in the Public Utility Regulatory Act and related statutes to create a competitive Texas electric market that is open to all classes of retail customers. Such review shall include but not be limited to the following issues:
2.	An appropriate date for opening the market to direct end-use customer access, and whether a phase-in program for public schools or other governmental units is warranted
3.	Methods for quantification of a utility's investments that would be uneconomic in a fully competitive market (stranded costs) and appropriate methods for recovery of costs (including rate freezes, adjustments to depreciation, transition charges, securitization);
4.	Balancing rate reductions with recovery of stranded costs during the transition to a competitive market;
5.	The basic structural requirements for the competitive market to serve as an effective and efficient replacement for traditional regulation;
6.	Provisions for municipal and cooperative utilities recognizing the importance of maintaining local control of community-owned systems and protecting the financial integrity of cooperative and municipal utilities;
7.	Safeguards necessary for customer protection in a fully competitive marketplace (including designation of a provider of last resort, protections for low-income customers, obligations to be imposed on all providers, ability of providers to serve customers on an aggregated basis, and fair marketing and sales practices);
8.	System reliability and service quality standards needed to ensure safe and reliable power and the role of the independent system operator in a fully competitive market;
9.	Environmental issues relating to a competitive marketplace;
10.	Development of renewable energy resources such as windpower in a competitive marketplace; and
11.	Scope and nature of the continuing role of regulation in a deregulated electric power industry including oversight of market power.
12.	Make recommendations for legislative and regulatory action, if necessary.
Committee:	House State Affairs
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committee on State Affairs, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 1998 : a report to the House of Representatives, 76th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Alternative energy | Automobiles | Biotechnology industry | Business taxes | Campaign contributors | Campaign finance reform | Campaign funds | Cloning | Councils of government | Electric utility deregulation | Ethics | Genetic research and testing | Long distance telephone service | Privacy | Public Utility Commission of Texas | Public Utility Regulatory Act | Soft money | State agencies | State taxes | Telephone deregulation | Telephone service |
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 st29h
Session:	75th R.S. (1997)
Online version:	View report [119 pages  File size: 6,856 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Examine and evaluate the role of financial contributions in campaigns for election to state offices. Identify practices or trends that may be detrimental to the public good and study ways to eliminate or reverse those trends. (Joint with the House Committee on Elections)
2.	Study the threats to personal privacy due to technological advances in the capacity to store data and the increasing use of electronic transaction in government, business, and everyday life. Examine the uses made of such information by governments and commercial enterprises, and the potential for abuse. Assess legislative options.
3.	Review conditions in the telecommunications industry. Examine changes that have occurred since the passage of HB 2128, 74th R.S., and compare current conditions to expectations at the time of passage. Assess the need for revisions to keep the transition to competition on track.
4.	Inventory the kinds of public-private arrangements that currently exist in Texas government, and examine any new ethical or accountability issues that arise when the state relies on private entities in non-traditional ways.
5.	Study the legal, social, and economic issues likely to arise because of developments in the fields of genetics and bioethics. Such issues may include those related to altered foodstuffs, cloning, reproduction, eugenics, and genetic testing.
6.	Examine whether Regional Planning Commissions (COG's) have fulfilled the purposes for which they were established originally, and whether their functions or enabling legislation requires change.
7.	Examine the feasibility of combining agency automobile fleets into a pooled fleet that could be centrally administered to obtain efficiencies of operation.
8.	Assess the state and local tax impacts of possible changes in the structure of the electric power industry.
Committee:	Senate Economic Development
Title:	Interim report - Telecommunications
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report on telecommunications.
Subjects:	Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 | Public Utility Commission of Texas | Public Utility Regulatory Act | Telecommunications infrastructure | Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund | Telephone service |
Library Call Number:	L1836.74 t235
Session:	74th R.S. (1995)
Online version:	View report [487 pages  File size: 17,803 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Monitor the implementation of the provisions of HB 2128, 74th R.S., the telecommunications bill, including: assessing its effectiveness in increasing competition in the local exchange market; determining the extent to which local exchange companies have increased their investment in the telecommunications infrastructure in Texas and identify which areas of the state, if any, have not fully benefited from such investments; and assessing the effectiveness of the use of the telecommunications infrastructure fund in improving the capabilities of Texas schools, libraries and hospitals.
Committee:	House State Affairs
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Committee on State Affairs, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 1996 : a report to the Texas House of Representatives, 75th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Base realignment and closure | Electric utility deregulation | Hospital districts | Military bases | Public Utility Regulatory Act | Telecommunications infrastructure | Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund | Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund Board | Telephone deregulation |
Library Call Number:	L1836.74 st29
Session:	74th R.S. (1995)
Online version:	View report [89 pages  File size: 4,029 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Review the structure and governance of hospital districts in light of changes in funding, federal legislation and changes in methods of delivering health care services.
2.	Study the feasibility of establishing an entity with specific responsibilities for preventing the downsizing or closure of Texas military bases.
3.	Conduct active oversight of agencies under the committee's jurisdiction, including HB 2128, 74th R.S., SB 373, 74th R.S., the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund Board and the implementation of assessments on the state's cellular and wireless telecommunications industries.
Committee:	House State Affairs
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Committee on State Affairs, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 1994 : a report to the House of Representatives, 74th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Consumer credit and debt | Consumer protection | Databases | Internet | Open government | Open records requests and decisions | Public information | Public Information Act, Texas | Public Utility Commission of Texas | Public Utility Regulatory Act | Rental companies | Sale-leaseback agreements | State agency mandated reports | Websites |
Library Call Number:	L1836.73 st29
Session:	73rd R.S. (1993)
Online version:	View report [103 pages  File size: 3,584 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Conduct active oversight of agencies under the committee's jurisdiction, including a study of mandated reports to the legislature and legislative agencies. The study should consist of a review of the legislative reporting requirements of all agencies to identify areas where reporting obligations could be streamlined and agency accountability improved. The committee shall make specific recommendations about the continuation, modification or elimination of required legislative reports.
2.	Consider revisions to the Open Records Act to clarify its meaning and utility in light of the number of information files now maintained on computers.
3.	Study the feasibility of a consolidated Texas state government database to improve electronic access to legislative information, information maintained by state agencies, the Texas Register and other information of public interest and importance.
4.	Examine the laws related to consumer finance and installment purchases to determine whether changes in the laws, their interpretation or enforcement are necessary to protect the public interest.
5.	Evaluate the public benefits of requiring the Public Utilities Commission to grant incentive rates of return to electric and telecommunications utilities that exceed certain efficiency thresholds, and to levy a rate of return penalty on utilities that fail to achieve established efficiency standards.
Committee:	Joint Telecommunications, Interim
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Texas alternatives : competitive and regulatory options in telecommunications and electric power : a roadmap for meeting new challenges : a report to the 74th Legislature.
Subjects:	Electric utility deregulation | Energy policy | Public Utility Commission of Texas | Public Utility Counsel, Office of | Public Utility Regulatory Act | Telephone deregulation | Telephone service |
Library Call Number:	L1836.73 t235
Session:	73rd R.S. (1993)
Online version:	View report [100 pages  File size: 8,945 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Study and develop a long term telecommunications policy that promotes technological innovation, economic competitiveness, customer service and universal service while protecting consumers of monopoly services.
2.	Study and make recommendations for the appropriate regulatory framework to promote the state's telecommunications policy, including any necessary statutory changes to achieve that framework.
3.	Study and make recommendations for changes to the Public Utility Regulatory Act to implement the state's telecommunications policy.
4.	Study and make recommendations for any other legislative changes needed to achieve the state's telecommunications goals.
Committee:	House Statewide Energy Plan, Select
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Report of the House Select Committee on Statewide Energy Plan, 70th Legislature : to the speaker and members of the Texas House of Representatives, 71st Legislature.
Subjects:	Electric power plants | Electric utilities | Electricity transmission and distribution | Energy policy | Public Utility Commission of Texas | Public Utility Regulatory Act |
Library Call Number:	L1836.70 en27p
Session:	70th R.S. (1987)
Online version:	View report [25 pages  File size: 878 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Study the current status of the state's electrical power industry, as well as its potential role in promoting the revitalization of Texas through the development of a statewide energy plan. In addition to making recommendations concerning the legislative implementation of such a plan, the committee shall examine alternatives to methods currently used to generate and transmit electricity and evaluate rate-setting policies to ensure that all consumers receive electricity at the lowest possible cost.
Committee:	Senate Human Resources Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs
Title:	Interim Report - Public Utility Regulation
Library Catalog Title:	Public Utility Regulation Final Report
Subjects:	Public Utility Commission of Texas | Public Utility Regulatory Act |
Library Call Number:	L1836.67 c765p
Session:	67th R.S. (1981)
Online version:	View report [14 pages  File size: 496 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Study the continuing operation of the Public Utility Commission.
Supporting documents
Committee:	Senate Human Resources Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs
Title:	SR 773
Library Call Number:	SR 773
Session:	67th R.S. (1981)
Online version:	View document [3 pages  File size: 742 kb]
Committee:	Senate Human Resources Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs
Title:	Interim Report - Public utility regulation
Library Catalog Title:	Final staff recommendations on the Public Utility Commission and the Public Utility Regulatory Act.
Subjects:	Electric utilities | Public Utility Commission of Texas | Public Utility Regulatory Act |
Library Call Number:	L1836.66 c765rp
Session:	66th R.S. (1979)
Online version:	View report [37 pages  File size: 1,479 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Monitor the operation of the Public Utility Commission, examine utility rate case decisions, and investigate public concerns regarding state regulation of utilities. *
Supporting documents
Committee:	Senate Human Resources Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs
Title:	Press Releases
Library Catalog Title:	Minutes
Library Call Number:	L1836.66 C765PR
Session:	66th R.S. (1979)
Online version:	View document [155 pages]
Committee:	Senate Human Resources Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs
Title:	Interim Report - Public Utility Commission of Texas
Library Catalog Title:	Final Report, Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs : the Public Utility Commission of Texas.
Subjects:	Public Utility Commission of Texas | Public Utility Regulatory Act |
Library Call Number:	L1836.64 c765rp
Session:	64th R.S. (1975)
Online version:	View report [14 pages  File size: 412 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Monitor and oversee the activities and actions of the Public Utility Commission of Texas. *

* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.

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