Bill Text: TX SB454 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the deployment of advanced metering and meter information networks in certain areas outside of ERCOT.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-19 - Left pending in committee [SB454 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB454-Introduced.html
| By: Hughes | S.B. No. 454 | |
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| relating to the deployment of advanced metering and meter | ||
| information networks in certain areas outside of ERCOT. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter K, Chapter 39, Utilities Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 39.5021 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 39.5021. METERING. (a) Notwithstanding Section | ||
| 39.502, an electric utility subject to this subchapter that elects | ||
| to deploy advanced metering and meter information networks may | ||
| recover reasonable and necessary costs incurred in deploying | ||
| advanced metering and meter information networks. An electric | ||
| utility that elects to deploy advanced metering or meter | ||
| information networks is subject to commission rules adopted under | ||
| Sections 39.107(h) and (k). The commission shall ensure that any | ||
| deployment plan approved under this section and any related | ||
| customer surcharge: | ||
| (1) are not applicable to customer accounts that | ||
| receive service at transmission voltage; and | ||
| (2) are consistent with commission rules related to | ||
| advanced metering systems regarding: | ||
| (A) customer protections; | ||
| (B) data security, privacy, and ownership; and | ||
| (C) options given consumers to continue to | ||
| receive service through a non-advanced meter. | ||
| (b) An electric utility subject to this subchapter that | ||
| elects to deploy an advanced meter information network shall deploy | ||
| the network as rapidly as practicable to allow customers to better | ||
| manage energy use and control costs. | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
