Each utility shall file with the commission, on commission-prescribed forms available on the commission's website, an earnings report providing the information required to enable the commission to properly monitor public utilities within the state. A deregulated or transitioning company is not required to file an earnings report with the commission unless the company is receiving support from the Texas High Cost Universal Service Plan.

1. (1) Each utility shall report information related to the most recent calendar year as specified in the instructions to the report.
2. (2) Each utility shall file three copies of the commission-prescribed earnings report and shall electronically transmit one copy of the report no later than May 15th of each year.
3. (3) A utility with a rate proceeding pending before the commission on the due date of the annual earnings report, pursuant to the Public Utility Regulatory Act, Chapter 53, in which a rate filing package is required, or who had a final order issued in such a proceeding within the previous 12 months, is exempt from filing the report.

Source Note:The provisions of this §26.73 adopted to be effective September 8, 1998, 23 TexReg 9046; amended to be effective May 3, 2007, 32 TexReg 2358; amended to be effective April 4, 2012, 37 TexReg 2178.