Bill Text: TX SB2511 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to notice and assistance provided to residential electric customers before electric service is disconnected.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-23 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB2511 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2511-Introduced.html
| By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 2511 | |
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| Relating to notice and assistance provided to residential electric | ||
| customers before electric service is disconnected. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 39.101, Utilities Code, is amended by | ||
| adding subsection (i) and (j) to read as follows: | ||
| (i) Transmission and distribution utilities and retail | ||
| electric providers, aggregators, and any other entity that provides | ||
| retail electric service must report to the Public Utility | ||
| Commission no less than monthly: | ||
| (1) the amount of customers by zip code who have been | ||
| disconnected. | ||
| (2) the amount of customer by zip code who have been | ||
| offered assistance as described in Utilities Code 39.101(j). | ||
| (j) A retail electric provider, power generation company, | ||
| aggregator, or other entity that provides retail electric service | ||
| may not disconnect service to a residential customer until they | ||
| have: | ||
| (1) offered assistance from federal weatherization | ||
| programs, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), | ||
| other federal rebates, and any state customer assistance programs | ||
| that might apply to the affected customer. | ||
| (2) offered the customer an energy assessment to | ||
| determine opportunities for permanent energy reductions and | ||
| opportunities to participate in demand response programs for | ||
| payment, including programs established in Utilities Code | ||
| 39.905(f). | ||
| 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, 2023. | ||
