Bill Text: TX HB3941 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to municipally owned utility reports on infrastructure improvement and maintenance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-19 - Left pending in committee [HB3941 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3941-Introduced.html
88R13372 JXC-D | ||
By: Goodwin | H.B. No. 3941 |
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relating to municipally owned utility reports on infrastructure | ||
improvement and maintenance. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 38.101, Utilities Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 38.101. REPORT ON INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT AND | ||
MAINTENANCE. (a) Not later than May 1 of each year, each electric | ||
utility and municipally owned utility shall submit to the | ||
commission a report describing the utility's activities related to: | ||
(1) identifying areas that are susceptible to damage | ||
during severe weather and hardening transmission and distribution | ||
facilities in those areas; | ||
(2) vegetation management; and | ||
(3) inspecting distribution poles. | ||
(b) Each electric utility and municipally owned utility | ||
shall include in a report required under Subsection (a) a summary of | ||
the utility's activities related to preparing for emergency | ||
operations. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |