Bill Text: TX HB986 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the deployment of advanced metering and meter information networks by certain non-ERCOT utilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-24 - Effective immediately [HB986 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB986-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 986 |
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relating to the deployment of advanced metering and meter | ||
information networks by certain non-ERCOT utilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.402, Utilities Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read as follows: | ||
(e) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), an electric utility | ||
subject to this subchapter that elects to deploy advanced metering | ||
and meter information networks may recover reasonable and necessary | ||
costs incurred in deploying advanced metering and meter information | ||
networks. An electric utility that elects to deploy advanced | ||
metering or meter information networks is subject to commission | ||
rules adopted under Sections 39.107(h) and (k). The commission | ||
shall ensure that any deployment plan approved under this section | ||
and any related customer surcharge: | ||
(1) are not applicable to customer accounts that | ||
receive service at transmission voltage; and | ||
(2) are consistent with commission rules related to | ||
advanced metering systems regarding: | ||
(A) customer protections; | ||
(B) data security, privacy, and ownership; and | ||
(C) options given consumers to continue to | ||
receive service through a non-advanced meter. | ||
(f) An electric utility subject to this subchapter that | ||
elects to deploy an advanced meter information network shall deploy | ||
the network as rapidly as practicable to allow customers to better | ||
manage energy use and control costs. | ||
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, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 986 was passed by the House on April | ||
5, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 1, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 986 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
10, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |