Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 2483	House Author:  King, Phil et al.
Effective:  9-1-21	Senate Sponsor:  Hancock

            House Bill 2483 amends the Utilities Code to authorize a transmission and distribution utility to lease and operate facilities that provide temporary emergency electric energy to aid in restoring power to the utility's distribution customers during certain widespread power outages and to procure, own, and operate, or enter into a cooperative agreement with other transmission and distribution utilities to procure, own, and operate jointly, transmission and distribution facilities that have a lead time of at least six months and would aid in restoring power to the utility's distribution customers following a widespread power outage. Among other provisions, the bill provides for the recovery of associated costs by a transmission and distribution utility and prohibits a utility that leases and operates such facilities from selling electric energy or ancillary services from those facilities. These provisions expire September 1, 2029; however, the bill requires the Public Utility Commission of Texas, not later than January 1, 2029, to analyze the effects of authorizing transmission and distribution utilities to lease, operate, procure, or own the utility facilities and to submit a report to the legislature that includes that analysis and a recommendation of whether the legislature should allow the bill's provisions to expire.