SRC-MWN S.B. 1116 77(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 1116
By: Armbrister
Business & Commerce
4/9/2001
As Filed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

The Public Utility Commission (PUC) has been working on protocols to
implement the renewable energy program. As proposed, S.B. 1116 allows a
generation and transmission cooperative to be responsible for its members'
cumulative total renewable obligation, if the cooperative's board elects to
do so. S.B. 1116 also prohibits the PUC from requiring a generation and
transmission cooperative to allocate their renewable energy resources among
their members. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a
state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 39.904(b), Public Utility Regulatory Act, to
require a generation and transmission cooperative, at the election of its
board of directors, to be responsible for the cumulative total of its
cooperative members' renewable energy requirements. Prohibits  the Public
Utility Commission of Texas (commission) from requiring a generation and
transmission cooperative that makes the election authorized by this
subsection to allocate its renewable resources between its members when
such resources are nominated. Provides that this subsection does not affect
the cumulative total of renewable energy resources that are the
responsibility of a generation and transmission cooperative or its
cooperative members in meeting their share of the state's goals for
renewable energy resources. 

SECTION 2. Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2001.