Bill Text: TX HB2638 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to periods of customer curtailment for multifamily properties during rolling blackouts.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-17 - Referred to State Affairs [HB2638 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2638-Introduced.html
| 87R11216 JXC-D | ||
| By: Meza | H.B. No. 2638 | |
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| relating to periods of customer curtailment for multifamily | ||
| properties during rolling blackouts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 38, Utilities Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 38.074 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 38.074. ROLLING BLACKOUTS. The commission by rule | ||
| shall require each electric utility, municipally owned utility, and | ||
| electric cooperative that is subject 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 to rotate customer curtailment so | ||
| that no part of the distribution system that serves a multifamily | ||
| property with more than 25 units is subject to an outage of more | ||
| than 6 hours. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
