Bill Text: TX HB4952 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the reliability of the electricity supply chain.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Placed on intent calendar [HB4952 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4952-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the reliability of the electricity supply chain.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Placed on intent calendar [HB4952 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4952-Introduced.html
88R9934 ANG-F | ||
By: Slawson | H.B. No. 4952 |
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relating to the security of the electricity supply chain. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter F, Chapter 38, | ||
Utilities Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
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SECTION 2. Section 38.201(c), Utilities Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) The committee is composed of: | ||
(1) the executive director of the commission; | ||
(2) the executive director of the Railroad Commission | ||
of Texas; | ||
(3) the president and the chief executive officer of | ||
the independent organization certified under Section 39.151 for the | ||
ERCOT power region; [ |
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(4) the public safety director of the Department of | ||
Public Safety; and | ||
(5) the chief of the Texas Division of Emergency | ||
Management. | ||
SECTION 3. Subchapter F, Chapter 38, Utilities Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 38.205 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 38.205. PHYSICAL SECURITY OF SUBSTATIONS. (a) The | ||
commission shall require each electric cooperative, municipally | ||
owned utility, and transmission and distribution utility to include | ||
in the cooperative's or utility's emergency operations plan | ||
described by Section 186.007 information about the physical | ||
security of the cooperative's or utility's critical substations and | ||
contact information for each law enforcement agency with | ||
jurisdiction over the critical substations. | ||
(b) The commission shall provide the Department of Public | ||
Safety with access to the information described by Subsection (a). | ||
(c) Information provided to the commission or the | ||
Department of Public Safety under this section is confidential | ||
under Section 418.181, Government Code, and not subject to | ||
disclosure under Chapter 552, Government Code. | ||
SECTION 4. 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, 2023. |