Bill Text: TX SB1281 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to a reliability assessment of the ERCOT power grid and certificates of public convenience and necessity for certain transmission projects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB1281 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1281-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to a reliability assessment of the ERCOT power grid and certificates of public convenience and necessity for certain transmission projects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB1281 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1281-Comm_Sub.html
By: Hancock | S.B. No. 1281 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 9, 2021; March 18, 2021, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce; | ||
April 9, 2021, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 9, 2021, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1281 | By: Hancock |
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relating to certificates of public convenience and necessity for | ||
certain transmission projects. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 37.052, Utilities Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
(c) An electric utility is not required to amend the | ||
utility's certificate of public convenience and necessity to | ||
construct a transmission line that connects the utility's existing | ||
transmission facilities to a load-serving substation or metering | ||
point if: | ||
(1) the transmission line does not exceed three miles | ||
in length; | ||
(2) each landowner whose property would be directly | ||
affected by the transmission line, as provided by commission rules, | ||
provides written consent for the transmission line; and | ||
(3) all rights-of-way necessary for construction of | ||
the transmission line have been purchased. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 37.056(d), Utilities Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(d) The commission by rule shall establish criteria, in | ||
addition to the criteria described by Subsection (c), for granting | ||
a certificate for a transmission project that serves the ERCOT | ||
power region, that is not necessary to meet state or federal | ||
reliability standards, and that is not included in a plan developed | ||
under Section 39.904(g) [ |
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estimated cost of the transmission project for consumers and the | ||
estimated cost savings for consumers that may result from the | ||
transmission project. The commission shall include with its | ||
decision on an application for a certificate to which this | ||
subsection applies findings on the criteria. | ||
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
a proceeding affecting a certificate of public convenience and | ||
necessity that commences on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
A proceeding affecting a certificate of public convenience and | ||
necessity that commenced before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the proceeding is | ||
commenced, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
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