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2025 Texas Statutes
Utilities Code
Title 4 - Delivery of Utility Services
Subtitle B - Provisions Regulating Delivery of Services
Chapter 182 - Rights of Utility Customers
Subchapter D. Bill Payment Assistance Program for Burned Veterans
Section 182.202. Burned Veterans Assistance Program

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TX Util § 182.202 (2025)
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Sec. 182.202. BURNED VETERANS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. (a) The board of directors of an electric cooperative or the governing body of a municipally owned utility may establish a bill payment assistance program for a customer who is a military veteran who a medical doctor certifies has a significantly decreased ability to regulate the individual's body temperature because of severe burns received in combat.

(b) The costs of a bill payment assistance program established under Subsection (a) are considered a necessary operations expense.

(c) The board of directors of an electric cooperative or the governing body of a municipally owned utility may determine the method to fund a bill payment assistance program established under Subsection (a).

Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 597 (S.B. 981), Sec. 3, eff. June 14, 2013.

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