Honorable Kip Averitt, Chair, Senate Committee on Natural Resources
FROM:
John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
SB2236 by Seliger (Relating to the exemption of certain electric cooperatives from certain regulations.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The bill would exclude from regulation as a gas utility an electric cooperative or its subsidiary that sells electricity at wholesale and that offers or provides gas storage services to the public for hire if the gas storage facility is operated wholly or partly to support integration of renewable resources. No significant fiscal impact to the Railroad Commission or the Public Utility Commission.
Local Government Impact
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
Source Agencies:
455 Railroad Commission, 473 Public Utility Commission of Texas