Bill Text: TX HB154 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to weatherization of certain natural gas facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-10-07 - Filed [HB154 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB154-Introduced.html
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| By: Rosenthal | H.B. No. 154 | |
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| relating to weatherization of certain natural gas facilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 81.073(b), Natural Resources Code, as | ||
| added by Section 4, Chapter 426 (S.B. 3), Acts of the 87th | ||
| Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (b) The rules must: | ||
| (1) establish criteria for designating persons who own | ||
| or operate a facility under the jurisdiction of the commission | ||
| under Section 81.051(a) or engage in an activity under the | ||
| jurisdiction of the commission under Section 81.051(a) who must | ||
| provide critical customer and critical gas supply information, as | ||
| defined by the commission, to the entities described by Section | ||
| 38.074(b)(1), Utilities Code; and | ||
| (2) consider essential operational elements when | ||
| defining critical customer designations and critical gas supply | ||
| information for the purposes of Subdivision (1), including natural | ||
| gas production, processing, and transportation, related produced | ||
| water handling and disposal facilities, and the delivery of natural | ||
| gas to generators of electric energy[ |
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| SECTION 2. Section 86.044(b), Natural Resources Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (b) This section applies only to a gas supply chain facility | ||
| that is: | ||
| (1) included on the electricity supply chain map | ||
| created under Section 38.203, Utilities Code,[ |
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| manner provided by Section 81.073; or | ||
| (2) a facility used for producing natural gas. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 81.073, Natural Resources Code, as added | ||
| by Section 1, Chapter 931 (H.B. 3648), Acts of the 87th Legislature, | ||
| Regular Session, 2021, is repealed. | ||
| SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
| 86.044(b), Natural Resources Code, applies only to a facility for | ||
| which drilling is begun on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| A facility for which drilling was begun before the effective date of | ||
| this Act is governed by the law in effect at the time drilling was | ||
| begun, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
