Bill Text: TX SB1219 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a customer's right to privacy of smart meter collected data.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-09 - Left pending in committee [SB1219 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1219-Introduced.html
| By: Davis | S.B. No. 1219 | |
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| relating to a customer's right to privacy of smart meter collected | ||
| data. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 39.107(b), Utilities Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (b) Metering services provided to residential customers and | ||
| to nonresidential customers other than those required by the | ||
| independent system operator to have an interval data recorder meter | ||
| shall continue to be provided by the transmission and distribution | ||
| utility affiliate of the electric utility that was serving the area | ||
| before the introduction of customer choice. Retail electric | ||
| providers serving residential and nonresidential customers other | ||
| than those required by the independent system operator to have an | ||
| interval data recorder meter may request that the transmission and | ||
| distribution utility provide specialized meters, meter features, | ||
| or add-on accessories so long as they are technically feasible and | ||
| generally available in the market and provided that the retail | ||
| electric provider pays the differential cost of such a meter or | ||
| accessory. Metering and billing services provided to residential | ||
| customers shall be governed by the customer safeguards adopted by | ||
| the commission under Section 39.101. All meter data, including all | ||
| data generated, provided, or otherwise made available, by advanced | ||
| meters and meter information networks, shall belong to a customer, | ||
| including data used to calculate charges for service, historical | ||
| load data, and any other proprietary customer information. A | ||
| customer may authorize its data to be provided to one or more retail | ||
| electric providers under rules and charges established by the | ||
| commission. An entity other than a retail electric provider or | ||
| electric utility may only have access to meter data with written | ||
| consent from a customer under rules established by the commission. | ||
| 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, 2013. | ||
