Bill Text: TX HB2346 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to exempting certain customers from certain demand charges by transmission and distribution utilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-20 - Referred to State Affairs [HB2346 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2346-Introduced.html
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| By: Phillips | H.B. No. 2346 | |
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| relating to exempting certain customers from certain demand charges | ||
| by transmission and distribution utilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 36.009, Utilities Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 36.009. BILLING DEMAND FOR CERTAIN UTILITY CUSTOMERS. | ||
| (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the | ||
| commission by rule shall require a transmission and distribution | ||
| utility to: | ||
| (1) waive the application of demand ratchet provisions | ||
| for each nonresidential secondary service customer that has a | ||
| maximum load factor equal to or below a factor set by commission | ||
| rule; | ||
| (2) implement procedures to verify annually whether | ||
| each nonresidential secondary service customer has a maximum load | ||
| factor that qualifies the customer for the waiver described by | ||
| Subdivision (1); | ||
| (3) specify in the utility's tariff whether the | ||
| utility's nonresidential secondary service customers that qualify | ||
| for the waiver described by Subdivision (1) are to be billed for | ||
| distribution service charges on the basis of: | ||
| (A) kilowatts; | ||
| (B) kilowatt-hours; or | ||
| (C) kilovolt-amperes; and | ||
| (4) modify the utility's tariff in the utility's next | ||
| base rate case to implement the waiver described by Subdivision (1) | ||
| and make the specification required by Subdivision (3). | ||
| (b) For each utility that has not initiated a base rate case | ||
| between May 28, 2011, and September 1, 2017, the commission shall | ||
| initiate before January 1, 2018, a proceeding to modify the | ||
| utility's tariff to implement the waiver described by Subsection | ||
| (a)(1) and make the specification required by Subsection (a)(3). | ||
| 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, 2017. | ||
