Bill Text: TX HB898 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to standards for power lines.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 5)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-01 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB898 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB898-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Creighton, White, Ashby | H.B. No. 898 | |
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| relating to standards for power lines. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 181.041, Utilities Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subdivisions (3) and (4) to read as follows: | ||
| (3) "Distribution line" means a power line operated | ||
| below 60,000 volts when measured phase to phase. | ||
| (4) "Transmission line" means a power line operated at | ||
| 60,000 volts or more when measured phase to phase. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 181.045(a), Utilities Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (a) A municipal electric utility shall construct, operate, | ||
| and maintain its transmission lines and distribution lines [ |
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| and at other places in accordance with the national electrical | ||
| safety code. With regard to clearances, an electric utility that is | ||
| not a municipal electric utility shall construct, operate, and | ||
| maintain its transmission lines and distribution lines [ |
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| and at other places in accordance with the national electrical | ||
| safety code. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2013. | ||
