87R11216 JXC-D
By: Meza H.B. No. 2638
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to periods of customer curtailment for multifamily
properties during 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 38.074 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 that serves a multifamily
property with more than 25 units is subject to an outage of more
than 6 hours.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.