Bill Text: TX SB1470 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to chilled water service and district cooling systems.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-06 - Left pending in committee [SB1470 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1470-Introduced.html
| By: Buckingham | S.B. No. 1470 | |
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| relating to chilled water service and district cooling systems. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 11.003, Utilities Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subdivision (8-a) and amending Subdivision (11) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (8-a) "District cooling system" means a system that | ||
| produces chilled water at a central plant and pipes that water to | ||
| buildings for air conditioning. | ||
| (11) "Municipally owned utility" means a utility owned, | ||
| operated, and controlled by a municipality or by a nonprofit | ||
| corporation the directors of which are appointed by one or more | ||
| municipalities and includes any district cooling system operated by | ||
| the utility. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 552.133 (a-1)(2), Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subdivision (P) to read as follows: | ||
| (P) information related to a chilled water program | ||
| or program designed to used chilled water to reduce peak demand. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 552.113 (b), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (b) Information or records are excepted from the | ||
| requirements of Section 552.021 if the information or records are | ||
| reasonably related to a competitive matter, as defined in this | ||
| section. Information or records of a municipally owned utility | ||
| that are reasonably related to a competitive matter are not subject | ||
| to disclosure under this chapter, whether or not, under the | ||
| Utilities Code, the municipally owned utility has adopted customer | ||
| choice or serves in a multiply certificated service area. This | ||
| section does not limit the right of a public power utility governing | ||
| body to withhold from disclosure information deemed to be within | ||
| the scope of any other exception provided for in this chapter, | ||
| subject to the provisions of this chapter. Information reasonably | ||
| related to a municipally owned utility's rate review process and | ||
| how the municipality or municipally owned utility sets rates for | ||
| electric service and chilled water service or any other service | ||
| designed by the municipality or municipally owned utility to curb | ||
| peak demand or shift load are subject to disclosure under this | ||
| chapter and are not excepted from disclosure under this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
