Bill Text: TX HB2604 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the exclusion of school facilities from load shedding participation during a rolling blackout.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-17 - Referred to State Affairs [HB2604 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2604-Introduced.html
87R10869 JXC-D | ||
By: Allison | H.B. No. 2604 |
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relating to the exclusion of school facilities from load shedding | ||
participation during a rolling blackout. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 38, Utilities Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 38.0722 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 38.0722. EXCLUSION OF SCHOOL FACILITIES FROM ROLLING | ||
BLACKOUT. The commission by rule shall require each electric | ||
utility, municipally owned utility, and electric cooperative to | ||
exclude any circuits that provide power to a public elementary or | ||
secondary school facility from participation in the utility's or | ||
cooperative's attempt to shed load in response to a rolling | ||
blackout initiated by an independent organization certified under | ||
Section 39.151 or another reliability council or power pool in | ||
which the utility or cooperative operates. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |