Bill Text: TX HB2861 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the exclusion of certain medical facilities from load shedding participation during a rolling blackout.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-18 - Referred to State Affairs [HB2861 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2861-Introduced.html
87R11597 JXC-D | ||
By: Bucy | H.B. No. 2861 |
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relating to the exclusion of certain medical 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 CERTAIN MEDICAL 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 | ||
facility that treats patients with end stage renal disease 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. |