Bill Text: TX HB3648 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of natural gas and electric services in this state.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-18 - Effective immediately [HB3648 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3648-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3648 | ||
|
|
||
| relating to the provision of natural gas and electric services in | ||
| this state. | ||
| 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 81.073 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 81.073. CRITICAL NATURAL GAS FACILITIES AND ENTITIES. | ||
| (a) The commission shall collaborate with the Public Utility | ||
| Commission of Texas to adopt rules to establish a process to | ||
| designate certain natural gas facilities and entities associated | ||
| with providing natural gas in this state as critical customers or | ||
| critical gas suppliers during energy emergencies. | ||
| (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. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 38, Utilities Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 38.074 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 38.074. CRITICAL NATURAL GAS FACILITIES AND ENTITIES. | ||
| (a) The commission shall collaborate with the Railroad Commission | ||
| of Texas to adopt rules to establish a process to designate certain | ||
| natural gas facilities and entities associated with providing | ||
| natural gas in this state as critical during energy emergencies. | ||
| (b) The rules must: | ||
| (1) ensure that the independent organization | ||
| certified under Section 39.151 for the ERCOT power region and each | ||
| electric utility, municipally owned utility, and electric | ||
| cooperative providing service in the ERCOT power region is provided | ||
| with the information required by Section 81.073, Natural Resources | ||
| Code; | ||
| (2) provide for prioritizing for load-shed purposes | ||
| during an energy emergency the facilities and entities designated | ||
| under Subsection (a); and | ||
| (3) provide discretion to an electric utility, | ||
| municipally owned utility, or electric cooperative providing | ||
| service in the ERCOT power region to prioritize power delivery and | ||
| power restoration among the facilities and entities designated | ||
| under Subsection (a) on the utility's or cooperative's systems, as | ||
| circumstances require. | ||
| SECTION 3. (a) The Public Utility Commission of Texas and | ||
| Railroad Commission of Texas shall adopt rules required by Section | ||
| 81.073, Natural Resources Code, and Section 38.074, Utilities Code, | ||
| as added by this Act, not later than December 1, 2021. | ||
| (b) The Public Utility Commission of Texas shall provide a | ||
| report to the legislature regarding the implementation by the | ||
| Public Utility Commission of Texas of the designation and | ||
| prioritization requirements in this Act not later than January 1, | ||
| 2022. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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, 2021. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3648 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 20, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to | ||
| H.B. No. 3648 on May 24, 2021, and requested the appointment of a | ||
| conference committee to consider the differences between the two | ||
| houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report | ||
| on H.B. No. 3648 on May 29, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 141, | ||
| Nays 0, 1 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3648 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 19, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference | ||
| committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and | ||
| that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. | ||
| 3648 on May 29, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
