Bill Text: TX HB2849 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the winter weather emergency preparedness of facilities that provide electric service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-18 - Referred to State Affairs [HB2849 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2849-Introduced.html
87R11232 JXC-D | ||
By: Larson | H.B. No. 2849 |
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relating to the winter weather emergency preparedness of facilities | ||
that provide electric 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 35.0025 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 35.0025. WEATHER EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS. The | ||
commission by rule shall require each provider of generation in the | ||
ERCOT power region to implement measures to prepare the provider's | ||
generation facilities to provide adequate electric generation | ||
service during a winter weather emergency. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |