By: Janek S.B. No. 1824
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to electric service reliability measures.
       BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
       SECTION 1.  Section 38.005(b), Utilities Code, is amended to
read as follows:
       (b)  The Commission may [shall] take appropriate enforcement
action under this section, including but not limited to action
against a utility if any feeder with 10 or more customers appears on
the utility's list of [worst 10 percent performing] feeders for any
two consecutive years and [or] has had a SAIDI or SAIFI average that
is more than 300 percent greater than the system average of all
feeders during any two-year period, beginning in the year 2000.
       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, 2007.