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1	1	81R16634 JJT-F
2	2	By: Bonnen H.B. No. 2532
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to coordinating information regarding the location of
8	8	infrastructure to which the supply of electric service is critical
9	9	to the public health and safety or for emergency management
10	10	purposes.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Chapter 418, Government Code, is amended by
13	13	adding Subchapter I to read as follows:
14	14	SUBCHAPTER I. CRITICAL SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE INFORMATION FOR
15	15	ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION EMERGENCY RESPONSE
16	16	Sec. 418.251. CRITICAL SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE INFORMATION.
17	17	(a) To provide for rapid mitigation of disasters or emergencies
18	18	that result in widespread electric utility service outages, each
19	19	municipality and county shall provide the division with the
20	20	location of infrastructure in the municipality's or county's
21	21	jurisdiction that is critical to the public health or safety and
22	22	that requires electric utility service to adequately respond to or
23	23	to mitigate the effects of a disaster or emergency.
24	24	(b) A municipality or county shall file with the division
25	25	the critical infrastructure location information:
26	26	(1) annually;
27	27	(2) on a standardized form provided by the division to
28	28	be filed electronically or by mail; and
29	29	(3) by street address and by any other means of
30	30	identifying location the division requires.
31	31	(c) The division shall provide with the standardized form
32	32	information to assist a municipality or county in determining the
33	33	infrastructure in the municipality's or county's jurisdiction that
34	34	is critical to the public health or safety and that requires
35	35	electric utility service to adequately respond to or to mitigate
36	36	the effects of a disaster or emergency. The municipality or county
37	37	must rank the critical infrastructure identified on the form by
38	38	priority. The critical infrastructure identified must include:
39	39	(1) police and fire stations;
40	40	(2) relevant government buildings;
41	41	(3) sewage lift stations;
42	42	(4) water treatment facilities; and
43	43	(5) hospitals.
44	44	Sec. 418.252. DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION TO UTILITIES.
45	45	(a) The division shall provide to each electric utility that owns
46	46	electric transmission and distribution lines the critical
47	47	infrastructure location information for each municipality or
48	48	county served by the utility. The Public Utility Commission of
49	49	Texas shall assist the division in identifying the relevant
50	50	utilities and coordinating the delivery of the information.
51	51	(b) The division shall provide the information annually
52	52	under Subsection (a) not later than March 1.
53	53	Sec. 418.253. MAINTENANCE OF INFORMATION. (a) An electric
54	54	utility that receives the critical infrastructure location
55	55	information from the division shall:
56	56	(1) maintain the information to assist the utility
57	57	with efforts to restore electric utility service; and
58	58	(2) update the information annually with location
59	59	information as it is received from the division.
60	60	(b) The Public Utility Commission of Texas shall adopt rules
61	61	to ensure compliance with this section.
62	62	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.