86R8621 JXC-F
 
  By: Holland, Phelan, Raymond, Hunter, H.B. No. 4449
      Rodriguez
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the applicability of certain electric energy storage
  equipment requirements to municipally owned utilities and electric
  cooperatives.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 35.152, Utilities Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
         (d)  Subsection (b) does not require a municipally owned
  utility or an electric cooperative that owns or operates electric
  energy storage equipment or facilities described by Subsection (a)
  to register as a power generation company under Section 39.351(a). 
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.