Bill Text: TX HB4952 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.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-Comm_Sub.html
88R21993 ANG-F | |||
By: Slawson | H.B. No. 4952 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 4952: | |||
By: Spiller | C.S.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. Subchapter F, Chapter 38, Utilities Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 38.205 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 38.205. PHYSICAL SECURITY OF CRITICAL FACILITIES. (a) | ||
In this section, "critical facility" means a transmission | ||
substation and any associated control center the inoperability of | ||
which could result in widespread instability, uncontrolled | ||
separation, or cascading outages within an interconnection. | ||
(b) The commission shall require each electric utility, | ||
electric cooperative, municipally owned utility, river authority | ||
that owns electric transmission assets, and transmission and | ||
distribution utility to provide to the chair of the committee the | ||
following information: | ||
(1) the location of any critical facility owned or | ||
operated by the utility, cooperative, or authority; | ||
(2) security measures in place to protect each | ||
critical facility against physical attack; and | ||
(3) contact information for the applicable utility, | ||
cooperative, or authority. | ||
(c) The chair of the committee may share information | ||
provided to the chair under Subsection (b) related to a physical | ||
attack or a threat of a physical attack on a critical facility with | ||
a law enforcement agency that has jurisdiction over the critical | ||
facility. | ||
(d) The chair of the committee shall provide the Department | ||
of Public Safety with access to the information provided to the | ||
chair of the committee under Subsection (b). | ||
(e) Information provided to the chair of the committee 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 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, 2023. |