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| 1 | 1 | 87R11216 JXC-D | |
| 2 | 2 | By: Meza H.B. No. 2638 | |
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| 4 | 4 | ||
| 5 | 5 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 6 | 6 | AN ACT | |
| 7 | 7 | relating to periods of customer curtailment for multifamily | |
| 8 | 8 | properties during rolling blackouts. | |
| 9 | 9 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 10 | 10 | SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 38, Utilities Code, is | |
| 11 | 11 | amended by adding Section 38.074 to read as follows: | |
| 12 | 12 | Sec. 38.074. ROLLING BLACKOUTS. The commission by rule | |
| 13 | 13 | shall require each electric utility, municipally owned utility, and | |
| 14 | 14 | electric cooperative that is subject to a rolling blackout | |
| 15 | 15 | initiated by an independent organization certified under Section | |
| 16 | 16 | 39.151 or another reliability council or power pool in which the | |
| 17 | 17 | utility or cooperative operates to rotate customer curtailment so | |
| 18 | 18 | that no part of the distribution system that serves a multifamily | |
| 19 | 19 | property with more than 25 units is subject to an outage of more | |
| 20 | 20 | than 6 hours. | |
| 21 | 21 | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |