Bill Text: TX SB1093 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to facilities included in the electricity supply chain.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-19 - Effective immediately [SB1093 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1093-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to facilities included in the electricity supply chain.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-19 - Effective immediately [SB1093 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1093-Engrossed.html
By: Schwertner | S.B. No. 1093 |
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relating to facilities included in the electricity supply chain. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 37.157, Utilities Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 37.157. MAPS. (a) An electric utility shall file | ||
with the commission one or more maps that show each utility facility | ||
and that separately illustrate each utility facility for the | ||
generation, transmission, or distribution of the utility's | ||
services on a date the commission orders. | ||
(b) Each electric utility, transmission and distribution | ||
utility, electric cooperative, and municipally owned utility shall | ||
provide the utility's service area boundary map, using good faith | ||
efforts, in a geographic information system format to the | ||
commission. The service area boundary map may be provided to the | ||
commission in a geodatabase feature class or shapefile. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 38.201, Utilities Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (a), (b), and (c) and adding Subsection (a-1) | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) In this subchapter, "electricity supply chain" means: | ||
(1) facilities and methods used for producing, | ||
treating, processing, pressurizing, storing, or transporting | ||
natural gas for delivery to electric generation facilities; [ |
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(2) critical infrastructure necessary to maintain | ||
electricity service; and | ||
(3) roads necessary to access facilities in the | ||
electricity supply chain. | ||
(a-1) A reference in this subchapter to the "electricity | ||
supply chain" includes water and wastewater treatment plants. | ||
(b) The Texas Electricity Supply Chain Security and Mapping | ||
Committee is established to: | ||
(1) map this state's electricity supply chain; | ||
(2) identify critical infrastructure sources in the | ||
electricity supply chain; | ||
(3) establish best practices to prepare facilities | ||
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electricity supply chain to maintain service in an extreme weather | ||
event and recommend oversight and compliance standards for those | ||
facilities; and | ||
(4) designate priority service needs to prepare for, | ||
respond to, and recover from an extreme weather event. | ||
(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 chief of the Texas Division of Emergency | ||
Management; and | ||
(5) the executive director of the Texas Department of | ||
Transportation. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 38.202(c), Utilities Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) The commission, the Railroad Commission of Texas, [ |
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the Texas Division of Emergency Management, and the Texas | ||
Department of Transportation shall provide staff as necessary to | ||
assist the committee in carrying out the committee's duties and | ||
responsibilities. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 38.203, Utilities Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (f), (g), (h), and | ||
(i) to read as follows: | ||
(a) The committee shall: | ||
(1) map the state's electricity supply chain in order | ||
to designate priority electricity service needs during extreme | ||
weather events; | ||
(2) identify and designate the sources in the | ||
electricity supply chain necessary to operate critical | ||
infrastructure, as defined by Section 421.001, Government Code; | ||
(3) develop a communication system between critical | ||
infrastructure sources, the commission, and the independent | ||
organization certified under Section 39.151 for the ERCOT power | ||
region to ensure that electricity and natural gas supplies in the | ||
electricity supply chain are prioritized to those sources during an | ||
extreme weather event; and | ||
(4) establish best practices to prepare facilities | ||
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electricity supply chain to maintain service in an extreme weather | ||
event and recommend oversight and compliance standards for those | ||
facilities. | ||
(f) On request, the committee shall provide view-only | ||
access to the electricity supply chain map to: | ||
(1) an electric utility, a transmission and | ||
distribution utility, an electric cooperative, or a municipally | ||
owned utility; | ||
(2) an operator of a gas supply chain facility, as | ||
defined by Section 86.044, Natural Resources Code; or | ||
(3) an operator of a gas pipeline facility described | ||
by Section 121.2015. | ||
(g) Access to the electricity supply chain map by an entity | ||
described by Subsection (f)(1) is limited to the critical natural | ||
gas facilities on the map that are located in the requesting | ||
entity's service area. | ||
(h) The committee may not provide an entity described by | ||
Subsection (f)(1) with access to the electricity supply chain map | ||
unless the entity has complied with Section 37.157. | ||
(i) Access to the electricity supply chain map by an | ||
operator described by Subsections (f)(2) and (3) is limited to the | ||
critical natural gas facilities operated by the requesting | ||
operator. | ||
SECTION 5. The Public Utility Commission of Texas shall | ||
require each entity to which Section 37.157(b), Utilities Code, as | ||
added by this Act, applies to comply with that section not later | ||
than September 30, 2023. | ||
SECTION 6. 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. |