Bill Text: TX HB3092 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to a certificate of public convenience and necessity to construct an electric transmission line.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)

Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [HB3092 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB3092-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 3092

AN ACT
relating to a certificate of public convenience and necessity to
construct an electric transmission line.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 37.052(c), Utilities Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(c) An electric utility is not required to amend the
utility's certificate of public convenience and necessity to
construct a transmission line that connects the utility's existing
transmission facilities to a substation or metering point if:
(1) the transmission line does not exceed:
(A) five [three] miles in length, if the line
connects to a load-serving substation or metering point; or
(B) two miles in length, if the line connects to a
generation substation or metering point;
(2) each landowner whose property would be directly
affected by the transmission line, as provided by commission rules,
provides written consent for the transmission line; and
(3) all rights-of-way necessary for construction of
the transmission line have been purchased.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3092 was passed by the House on May 2,
2025, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3092 was passed by the Senate on May
28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor