Bill Text: TX HB3371 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to emergency operations and weatherization plans prepared by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-22 - Referred to State Affairs [HB3371 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3371-Introduced.html
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| By: Ramos | H.B. No. 3371 | |
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| relating to emergency operations and weatherization plans prepared | ||
| by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 186, Utilities Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 186.008 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 186.008. COMPREHENSIVE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS AND | ||
| WEATHERIZATION PLAN. (a) In this section, "commission" means the | ||
| Public Utility Commission of Texas. | ||
| (b) Not later than January 1 of each year, the independent | ||
| organization certified under Section 39.151 for the ERCOT power | ||
| region shall prepare and deliver to the commission a comprehensive | ||
| emergency operations and weatherization plan that includes: | ||
| (1) emergency operations plans currently on file with | ||
| the organization; | ||
| (2) declarations of completion of weatherization | ||
| preparations from all electric generation entities in the ERCOT | ||
| power region; and | ||
| (3) relevant seasonal assessments of resource | ||
| adequacy, including projected resource capabilities, peak demand | ||
| forecasts, and expected unit outage forecasts. | ||
| (c) The commission shall analyze each emergency operations | ||
| plan developed by the independent organization certified under | ||
| Section 39.151 for the ERCOT power region and prepare a report on | ||
| emergency operations and weatherization preparedness in this state | ||
| that includes recommendations for improving the emergency | ||
| operations plan, if any. | ||
| (d) The commission shall submit the report described by | ||
| Subsection (c) to the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house | ||
| of representatives, and the members of the legislature not later | ||
| than September 1 of each year. | ||
| (e) Emergency operations plans described by Subsection | ||
| (b)(1) are public information except for the portions of the plans | ||
| considered confidential under Chapter 552, Government Code, or | ||
| other state or federal law. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
