Bill Text: TX HB4591 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the membership and meetings of the Texas Energy Reliability Council.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Referred to State Affairs [HB4591 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4591-Introduced.html
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| By: Goldman | H.B. No. 4591 | |
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| relating to the membership and meetings of the Texas Energy | ||
| Reliability Council. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 418.303(a), Government Code, as added by | ||
| Chapter 426 (S.B. 3), Acts of the 87th Legislature, Regular | ||
| Session, 2021, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The council is composed of: | ||
| (1) the chairman of the Railroad Commission of Texas; | ||
| (2) the presiding officer of the Public Utility | ||
| Commission of Texas; | ||
| (3) the chief executive of the Office of Public | ||
| Utility Counsel; | ||
| (4) the presiding officer of the Texas Commission on | ||
| Environmental Quality; | ||
| (5) the chair of the Texas Transportation Commission; | ||
| (6) a person to represent the independent organization | ||
| certified under Section 39.151, Utilities Code, for the ERCOT power | ||
| region, appointed by the governor; | ||
| (7) the chief; | ||
| (8) eight [ |
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| the natural gas supply chain in this state, appointed by the | ||
| Railroad Commission of Texas to represent as many types of | ||
| participants as possible; | ||
| (9) five persons to represent the electric industry, | ||
| appointed by the Public Utility Commission of Texas, including: | ||
| (A) one person to represent entities that provide | ||
| dispatchable electric energy to the power grid in this state; | ||
| (B) one person to represent transmission and | ||
| distribution utilities, as defined by Section 31.002, Utilities | ||
| Code; | ||
| (C) one person to represent retail electric | ||
| providers, as defined by Section 31.002, Utilities Code; | ||
| (D) one person to represent municipally owned | ||
| utilities, as defined by Section 11.003, Utilities Code; and | ||
| (E) one person to represent electric | ||
| cooperatives; | ||
| (10) three persons to represent energy sectors not | ||
| otherwise represented on the council, appointed by the Public | ||
| Utility Commission of Texas; and | ||
| (11) five persons to represent industrial concerns, | ||
| appointed by the governor, including: | ||
| (A) one person to represent motor fuel producers; | ||
| and | ||
| (B) one person to represent chemical | ||
| manufacturers. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 418.308, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
| (c) The council may not develop or present policy | ||
| recommendations for participants in the energy and electric | ||
| industries or for state agencies or local entities that regulate | ||
| energy and electric industries except for the purposes of reporting | ||
| to the legislature its recommendations under Section 418.310. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 418.309, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
| (e) A member of the council may describe publicly the | ||
| subject of any matter deliberated in a meeting of the council. The | ||
| description may not contain or disclose specific confidential | ||
| information. | ||
| SECTION 4. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the Railroad Commission of Texas shall appoint members | ||
| to the Texas Energy Reliability Council as required by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
