By: Hilderbran (Senate Sponsor - Eltife) H.B. No. 2052

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 20, 2009; May 1, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce; May 20, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 20, 2009, sent to printer.)

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 of the utility's feeders [feeder] with 10 or more customers [appears on the utility's list of worst 10 percent performing feeders for any two consecutive years 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. In determining the appropriate enforcement action, the commission shall consider:

(1) the feeder's operating and maintenance history;

(2) the cause of each interruption in the feeder's service;

(3) any action taken by a utility to address the feeder's performance;

(4) the estimated cost and benefit of remediating a feeder's performance; and

(5) any other relevant factor as determined by the commission.

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, 2009.

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