87R10973 JXC-D
 
  By: Morales Shaw H.B. No. 2991
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to rolling blackouts.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 38, Utilities Code, is
  amended by adding Section 38.0721 to read as follows:
         Sec. 38.0721.  EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN MEDICAL FACILITIES FROM
  ROLLING BLACKOUT. (a) In this section:
               (1)  "Assisted living facility" has the meaning
  assigned by Section 247.002, Health and Safety Code.
               (2)  "Hospice services" has the meaning assigned by
  Section 142.001, Health and Safety Code.
               (3)  "Nursing facility" has the meaning assigned by
  Section 242.301, Health and Safety Code.
         (b)  The commission by rule shall require each electric
  utility, municipally owned utility, and electric cooperative to
  exclude any circuits that provide power to an assisted living
  facility, a facility that provides hospice services, or a nursing
  facility from participation in the utility's or cooperative's
  attempt to shed load in response to a rolling blackout initiated by
  an independent organization certified under Section 39.151 or
  another reliability council or power pool in which the utility or
  cooperative operates.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter D, Chapter 38, Utilities Code, is
  amended by adding Section 38.074 to read as follows:
         Sec. 38.074.  ROLLING BLACKOUTS. The commission by rule
  shall require each electric utility, municipally owned utility, and
  electric cooperative that is subject to a rolling blackout
  initiated by an independent organization certified under Section
  39.151 or another reliability council or power pool in which the
  utility or cooperative operates to rotate customer curtailment so
  that no part of the distribution system is subject to an outage of
  more than 12 hours in a 24 hour period.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.