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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the prioritization of natural gas deliveries to certain |
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electric power generation units. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 121, Utilities Code, is |
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amended by adding Section 121.159 to read as follows: |
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Sec. 121.159. PRIORITY OF NATURAL GAS DELIVERY DURING |
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CURTAILMENT EVENT. (a) In this section, "human needs customers" |
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includes: |
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(1) residences, hospitals, water and wastewater |
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facilities, and police, fire, and military and civil defense |
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facilities; |
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(2) other locations where people may congregate in an |
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emergency; |
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(3) small commercial customers that cannot |
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practicably be curtailed without curtailing human needs; |
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(4) natural-gas-fired electric generation facilities; |
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and |
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(5) any other customers identified by rule by the |
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railroad commission. |
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(b) A gas utility that determines that the utility's ability |
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to deliver natural gas may become inadequate to support continuous |
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service to customers on the utility's intrastate system and that |
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reduces intrastate deliveries to one or more customers shall |
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prioritize natural gas deliveries to natural-gas-fired electric |
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generation facilities at the same level as natural gas deliveries |
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to other human needs customers and local distribution systems that |
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serve those human needs customers. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |