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the Texas Fair Housing Act as amended. (b) The fair housing officer conullission shall treat a complaint referred by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development or the Attorney General of the United States under the Fair Housing Act, as amended, or by the Texas Commission on Human Rights under the Texas Fair Housing Act, as amended, as a complaint filed under this article. No action will be taken under this article against a person for a discriminatory housing practice if the referred complaint was filed with the governmental entity later than one (1) year after an alleged discriminatory practice occurred or terminated. SECTION 3. Sections 86.166 and 86.168 of the City Code are amended as follows (underlining indicates added text; OvCIstlikc indicates deleted text): Sec. 86.166. Rules and regulations. The city council dcetIic utility boa1d is authorized and directed to promulgate, revise, amend and supplement the city electric utility rules and regulations for electric service, subject to the following: (1) The city council dCCtlic utility boa1d may propose changes to the rules and regulations only at a public meeting, to which notice is given as required by the Texas Open Meetings Act, V.T.C.A., Government Code S 551.001 et seq. (2) Proposed rules and regulations must be published twice in a newspaper of general circulation in the city, and notice of a public hearing must be given with the publications not more than 22 days or less than eight days before the public hearing is held. (3) Adoption of proposed rules and regulations by the city council electlie utility boald may occur after a public hearing has been closed and not more than 30 days thereafter, or the council board must schedule, provide public notice for and conduct a separate public hearing before the proposed rules and regulations may be adopted. (4) Any proposed rule or regulation that is adopted by the city council dCGtlic utility board must be published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in the city. (5) A rule or regulation adopted by the city council dectlic utility board shall not take effect less than 30 days from the date of its first publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the city. (6) Any and all rules and legulations adopted by thc dectlie utility boa1d a1C 5ubjcct to a wlitten appcal by any IatcpaycI aftcI they havc bccn adopted. Appcal5 5l1all be to thc city council. Thc eity council may, in it5 di5Clction, allow thc appealing party an opportunity to be heald in pCl50n or by a Icplc5cntati ve. C:\TEMP\board and comm'n repeal.wpd 7