Bill Text: TX SB1139 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the exclusion of hospital facilities from a rolling blackout.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-26 - Left pending in committee [SB1139 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1139-Introduced.html
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| By: Carona | S.B. No. 1139 | |
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| relating to the exclusion of hospital facilities from a rolling | ||
| blackout. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Utilities Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 38.006 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 38.006. EXCLUSION OF HOSPITAL FACILITIES FROM ROLLING | ||
| BLACKOUT. The commission by rule shall require each electric | ||
| utility, municipally owned utility, and electric cooperative to | ||
| exclude any circuits that provide power to a hospital facility from | ||
| participation in the utility's or cooperative's attempt to shed | ||
| load in response to a rolling blackout initiated by the Electric | ||
| Reliability Council of Texas or another reliability council or | ||
| power pool in which the utility or cooperative operates. | ||
| SECTION 2. The Public Utility Commission of Texas shall | ||
| adopt rules required by Section 38.006, Utilities Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, as soon as possible after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| 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. | ||
