Bill Text: TX HB1064 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to exempting certain customers from certain demand charges by transmission and distribution utilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-05-28 - Effective immediately [HB1064 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1064-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1064 | ||
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| relating to exempting certain customers from certain demand charges | ||
| by transmission and distribution utilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 36, Utilities Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 36.009 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 36.009. BILLING DEMAND FOR CERTAIN UTILITY CUSTOMERS. | ||
| Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the commission by | ||
| rule shall require a transmission and distribution utility to: | ||
| (1) waive the application of demand ratchet provisions | ||
| for each nonresidential secondary service customer that has a | ||
| maximum load factor equal to or below a factor set by commission | ||
| rule; | ||
| (2) implement procedures to verify annually whether | ||
| each nonresidential secondary service customer has a maximum load | ||
| factor that qualifies the customer for the waiver described by | ||
| Subdivision (1); | ||
| (3) specify in the utility's tariff whether the | ||
| utility's nonresidential secondary service customers that qualify | ||
| for the waiver described by Subdivision (1) are to be billed for | ||
| distribution service charges on the basis of: | ||
| (A) kilowatts; | ||
| (B) kilowatt-hours; or | ||
| (C) kilovolt-amperes; and | ||
| (4) modify the utility's tariff in the utility's next | ||
| base rate case to implement the waiver described by Subdivision (1) | ||
| and make the specification required by Subdivision (3). | ||
| SECTION 2. The Public Utility Commission of Texas shall | ||
| adopt rules as necessary to implement Section 36.009, Utilities | ||
| Code, as added by this Act, before June 1, 2012. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1064 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1064 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 12, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0 | ||
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| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
