Bill Text: TX SB33 | 2027-2028 | 90th Legislature Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the recovery of costs related to providing electricity service to customers at a computational load site.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced) 2026-11-09 - Filed [SB33 Detail]

Download: Texas-2027-SB33-Introduced.html

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90R4296 CXP-D
By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 33

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the recovery of costs related to providing electricity
service to customers at a computational load site.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 35.004(c-1) and (c-2), Utilities Code,
are redesignated as Section 35.0041, Utilities Code, and amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 35.0041. INTERCONNECTION OF AND COST RECOVERY FROM
LARGE LOAD CUSTOMERS. (a) [(c-1)] The commission by rule shall
ensure that a large load customer who is subject to the standards
adopted under Section 37.0561 contributes to the recovery of the
interconnecting electric utility's costs to interconnect the large
load to the utility's system.
(b) [(c-2)] An electric cooperative or municipally owned
utility that has not adopted customer choice shall pass through to a
large load customer who is subject to the standards adopted under
Section 37.0561 the reasonable costs to interconnect the large load
in a manner determined by the electric cooperative or municipally
owned utility.
(c) This subsection applies only to costs not recovered
under Subsection (a) or (b). Notwithstanding Section 35.004, the
commission by rule shall establish a system to:
(1) ensure that transmission costs of service
attributable to a customer receiving electricity service at a
computational load site are allocated to a separate transmission
cost of service rate class composed only of that type of customer;
and
(2) require each electric utility that provides
distribution service to a customer described by this subsection to
use a rate mechanism established by the commission for the purposes
of Subdivision (1).
(d) For purposes of Subsection (c), "computational load
site" means one or more buildings, structures, or installations at
a single location that:
(1) primarily contains information technology
infrastructure used for:
(A) creating, executing, and delivering software
applications and services;
(B) artificial intelligence training,
deployment, and delivery;
(C) adding virtual currency transactions to a
distributed ledger; or
(D) other computational activities at a data
center; and
(2) is supplied through electrical equipment that is
connected to the bulk power system.
(e) In this section, "virtual currency" has the meaning
assigned by Section 12.001, Business & Commerce Code.
(f) The system established under Subsection (c) may include
requirements that customers subject to that subsection pay minimum
demand charges, operate under contract terms specified by the
commission, or meet any other requirements the commission
determines necessary to ensure that transmission costs of service
attributable to those customers are not paid by other customers.
SECTION 2. The Public Utility Commission of Texas shall
adopt or revise rules as necessary to implement the changes in law
made by this Act not later than September 1, 2028.
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, 2027.