Bill Text: TX HB2481 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the winter weather emergency preparedness of gas pipeline facilities and facilities for providing electric service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-16 - Referred to State Affairs [HB2481 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2481-Introduced.html
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| By: Reynolds | H.B. No. 2481 | |
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| relating to the winter weather emergency preparedness of gas | ||
| pipeline facilities and facilities for providing electric service. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 35, Utilities Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 35.0021 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 35.0021. WINTER WEATHER EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS. The | ||
| commission by rule shall require each provider of generation in the | ||
| ERCOT power region to implement measures to prepare generation | ||
| facilities to provide adequate electric generation service during a | ||
| winter weather emergency. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 38, Utilities Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 38.074 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 38.074. WINTER WEATHER EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS. The | ||
| commission by rule shall require each electric cooperative, | ||
| municipally owned utility, and transmission and distribution | ||
| utility providing transmission or distribution service in the ERCOT | ||
| power region to implement measures to prepare facilities to | ||
| maintain service quality and reliability during a winter weather | ||
| emergency. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 121.2015(a), Utilities Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The railroad commission shall adopt rules regarding: | ||
| (1) public education and awareness relating to gas | ||
| pipeline facilities; [ |
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| (2) community liaison for responding to an emergency | ||
| relating to a gas pipeline facility; and | ||
| (3) measures gas pipeline facility operators must | ||
| implement to prepare gas pipeline facilities to maintain service | ||
| quality and reliability during a winter weather emergency. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
