By: King, Eckhardt  S.B. No. 1519
         (In the Senate - Filed March 3, 2023; March 16, 2023, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce;
  April 26, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 11,
  Nays 0; April 26, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to electric utility weather emergency preparedness.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 38.075(e), Utilities Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (e)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this subtitle,
  the commission shall allow a transmission and distribution utility
  to design and operate a load management program for
  [nonresidential] customers to be used where the independent
  organization certified under Section 39.151 for the ERCOT power
  region has declared a Level 2 Emergency or a higher level of
  emergency or has otherwise directed the transmission and
  distribution utility to shed load.  A transmission and distribution
  utility implementing a load management program under this
  subsection shall be permitted to recover the reasonable and
  necessary costs of the load management program under Chapter 36.  A
  load management program operated under this subsection is not
  considered a competitive service.
         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, 2023.
 
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