Bill Text: TX HB862 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 862 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to requiring an electric utility to notify certain landowners of its application for a certificate of convenience and necessity for a proposed transmission line facility.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-08 - Left pending in committee [HB862 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB862-Introduced.html

	84R2506 DDT-D

	By: Fallon	H.B. No. 862



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to requiring an electric utility to notify certain
	landowners of its application for a certificate of convenience and
	necessity for a proposed transmission line facility.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 37.053, Utilities Code, is amended by
	adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read as follows:
	(e) On the date the applicant files an application for a
	certificate for a proposed transmission line facility, the
	applicant shall mail notice of the application to all landowners,
	as stated on the current county tax roll, whose land:
	(1) would become subject to an easement or other
	property interest if the application is granted;
	(2) contains a habitable structure that would be
	within 300 feet of the centerline of a transmission project of 230
	kilovolts or less;
	(3) contains a habitable structure that would be
	within 500 feet of the centerline of a transmission project of more
	than 230 kilovolts; or
	(4) is in a residential subdivision that contains one
	or more lots described by Subdivision (2) or (3).
	(f) In this section, "residential subdivision" means a
	subdivision:
	(1) for which a plat is recorded in the county real
	property records; and
	(2) in which the majority of lots are subject to deed
	restrictions limiting the lots to residential use.
	SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
	an application for a certificate of convenience and necessity filed
	on or after the effective date of this Act. An application filed
	before that date is governed by the law in effect on the date the
	application was filed.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.