Bill Text: TX HB11 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the preparedness for extreme weather emergencies of facilities that provide electricity service; providing an administrative penalty.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 28-10)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-03 - Left pending in committee [HB11 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB11-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the preparedness for extreme weather emergencies of facilities that provide electricity service; providing an administrative penalty.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 28-10)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-03 - Left pending in committee [HB11 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB11-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Paddie, Hernandez, Allison, et al. | H.B. No. 11 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 11: | |||
By: Hernandez | C.S.H.B. No. 11 |
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relating to the preparedness for extreme weather emergencies of | ||
facilities that provide electricity service. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 35, Utilities Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 35.0021 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 35.0021. WEATHER EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS. (a) In this | ||
section, "extreme weather emergency" means a period when: | ||
(1) the previous day's highest temperature did not | ||
exceed 10 degrees Fahrenheit and the temperature is predicted to | ||
remain at or below that level for the next 24 hours according to the | ||
nearest National Weather Service reports; or | ||
(2) the National Weather Service issues a heat | ||
advisory for any county in the relevant service territory, or when | ||
such an advisory has been issued on any one of the previous two | ||
calendar days. | ||
(b) The commission by rule shall require each provider of | ||
generation in the ERCOT power region to: | ||
(1) implement measures to prepare generation | ||
facilities to provide adequate electric generation service during | ||
an extreme weather emergency; | ||
(2) make reasonable efforts to prevent electric | ||
generation service interruptions during an extreme weather | ||
emergency; | ||
(3) reestablish service in the shortest possible time | ||
period after an electric generation service interruption that | ||
occurs due to an extreme weather emergency; and | ||
(4) make reasonable efforts to manage emergencies | ||
caused by electric generation service interruptions during extreme | ||
weather emergencies, including issuing instructions to employees | ||
on procedures to be followed in the event of an extreme weather | ||
emergency. | ||
(c) The rules must address electric generation service for | ||
all neighborhoods, rural areas, communities of fewer than 1,000 | ||
people, and low-income areas in the ERCOT power region. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 38, Utilities Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 38.074 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 38.074. WEATHER EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS. (a) In this | ||
section, "extreme weather emergency" has the meaning assigned by | ||
Section 35.0021. | ||
(b) The commission by rule shall require each electric | ||
cooperative, municipally owned utility, and transmission and | ||
distribution utility providing transmission or distribution | ||
service in the ERCOT power region to: | ||
(1) implement measures to prepare facilities to | ||
maintain service quality and reliability during an extreme weather | ||
emergency; | ||
(2) make reasonable efforts to prevent service | ||
interruptions during an extreme weather emergency; | ||
(3) reestablish service in the shortest possible time | ||
period after a service interruption that occurs due to an extreme | ||
weather emergency; and | ||
(4) make reasonable efforts to manage emergencies | ||
caused by service interruptions during extreme weather | ||
emergencies, including issuing instructions to employees on | ||
procedures to be followed in the event of an extreme weather | ||
emergency. | ||
(c) The rules must address service for all neighborhoods, | ||
rural areas, communities of fewer than 1,000 people, and low-income | ||
areas in the ERCOT power region. | ||
SECTION 3. The Public Utility Commission of Texas shall | ||
adopt the rules required by Sections 35.0021 and 38.074, Utilities | ||
Code, as added by this Act, not later than November 1, 2021. | ||
SECTION 4. 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, 2021. |