Bill Text: TX HB3240 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of the Texas geothermal energy production policy council.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-24 - Filed [HB3240 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB3240-Introduced.html
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| By: Guerra | H.B. No. 3240 | |
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| relating to the establishment of the Texas geothermal energy | ||
| production policy council. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 81, Natural Resources | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 81.076 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 81.076. TEXAS GEOTHERMAL ENERGY PRODUCTION POLICY | ||
| COUNCIL. (a) In this section, "council" means the Texas geothermal | ||
| energy production policy council. | ||
| (b) The Texas geothermal energy production policy council | ||
| is established within the commission to study and make | ||
| recommendations relating to the commission's policy framework for | ||
| geothermal energy development. | ||
| (c) The council is composed of: | ||
| (1) the chair of the commission or the chair's | ||
| designee; | ||
| (2) the director of the Bureau of Economic Geology of | ||
| The University of Texas at Austin or the director's designee; and | ||
| (3) not more than 11 members appointed by the | ||
| commission to represent as many different types of participants as | ||
| possible, including at least three but not more than five | ||
| representatives from the geothermal energy industry. | ||
| (d) The chair of the commission or the chair of the | ||
| commission's designee is the chair of the council. | ||
| (e) A member of the council is not entitled to compensation | ||
| or reimbursement of expenses for service on the council. | ||
| (f) The council shall: | ||
| (1) study the development of geothermal energy | ||
| industries in this state, including the development of facilities | ||
| for the production, pipeline transportation, and storage of | ||
| geothermal energy; | ||
| (2) analyze how tax incentives or cooperation with the | ||
| Geothermal Technologies Office of the United States Department of | ||
| Energy could encourage the development of geothermal energy | ||
| projects in this state; and | ||
| (3) develop a state plan for geothermal energy | ||
| production oversight by the commission. | ||
| (g) The council shall make recommendations to the | ||
| legislature relating to legislative changes needed for the | ||
| oversight and regulation of production, pipeline transportation, | ||
| and storage of geothermal energy. | ||
| (h) The council is abolished and this section expires | ||
| January 1, 2032. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
