Bill Text: TX SB391 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to a reliability plan for electric transmission service in the Permian Basin.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-19 - Filed [SB391 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB391-Introduced.html

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89R4419 SCR-F
By: Sparks S.B. No. 391

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a reliability plan for electric transmission service in
the Permian Basin.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.167(a), Utilities Code, as added by
Chapter 892 (H.B. 5066), Acts of the 88th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2023, is amended to read as follows:
(a) The [Not later than January 30, 2024, the] commission
shall direct the independent organization certified under Section
39.151 for the ERCOT power region to develop a reliability plan
under Section 39.166 for the Permian Basin region and update the
plan every five years.
SECTION 2. Section 39.167(c), Utilities Code, as added by
Chapter 892 (H.B. 5066), Acts of the 88th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2023, is repealed.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.