---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the procedure for amending or revoking certificates of public convenience and necessity issued to certain water utilities."
description: "Relating to the procedure for amending or revoking certificates of public convenience and necessity issued to certain water utilities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "SB 2272"
citation: "Texas SB 2272 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Utilities--General (I0830)", "Utilities--Water & Sewer (I0002)", "WATER & SEWER SERVICE (S0443)", "PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION (V0023)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Creighton", "Metcalf", "Nichols"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 55
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-08"
last_action: "2019-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c21f4d70-ad29-4ffa-9a54-d1b52b44c69c"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB02200_SB02299/SB 2272.xml"
source_hash: "70fa7e9fa19d0229e24341367e4d1cc818a299399113b0be78b9d5b8e494d593"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tx"]
---

# Texas SB 2272 (86) — Relating to the procedure for amending or revoking certificates of public convenience and necessity issued to certain water utilities.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/SB02272I.HTM)

## Votes

- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- passage — **143–0** (pass) · lower
- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Creighton — primary (person)
- Metcalf — primary (person)
- Nichols — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-03-08** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
- **2019-03-08** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-21** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-21** Referred to Water & Rural Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-15** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-04-15** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-15** Testimony taken in committee
- **2019-04-17** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-17** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-04-17** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-04-24** Placed on intent calendar
- **2019-05-01** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2019-05-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-01** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-05-01** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-01** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-01** Passed to engrossment as amended
- **2019-05-01** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-01** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-05-01** Record vote
- **2019-05-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-01** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-01** Record vote
- **2019-05-01** Reported engrossed
- **2019-05-01** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2019-05-02** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-05-02** Referred to Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-14** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-05-14** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-15** Considered in formal meeting
- **2019-05-15** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-05-15** Vote reconsidered in committee
- **2019-05-15** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-16** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-05-16** Committee report distributed
- **2019-05-17** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-05-19** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-05-21** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2019-05-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-21** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2019-05-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-22** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-22** Record vote
- **2019-05-22** House passage as amended reported
- **2019-05-25** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
- **2019-05-25** Read
- **2019-05-25** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
- **2019-05-25** Record vote
- **2019-05-25** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
- **2019-05-25** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-26** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-26** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-26** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-10** Effective on 9/1/19 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c21f4d70-ad29-4ffa-9a54-d1b52b44c69c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).