87S30563 CXP-F
By: Rosenthal H.B. No. 154
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to weatherization of certain natural gas facilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 81.073(b), Natural Resources Code, as
added by Section 4, Chapter 426 (S.B. 3), Acts of the 87th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, is amended to read as follows:
(b) The rules must:
(1) establish criteria for designating persons who own
or operate a facility under the jurisdiction of the commission
under Section 81.051(a) or engage in an activity under the
jurisdiction of the commission under Section 81.051(a) who must
provide critical customer and critical gas supply information, as
defined by the commission, to the entities described by Section
38.074(b)(1), Utilities Code; and
(2) consider essential operational elements when
defining critical customer designations and critical gas supply
information for the purposes of Subdivision (1), including natural
gas production, processing, and transportation, related produced
water handling and disposal facilities, and the delivery of natural
gas to generators of electric energy[; and
[(3) require that only facilities and entities that
are prepared to operate during a weather emergency may be
designated as a critical customer under this section].
SECTION 2. Section 86.044(b), Natural Resources Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) This section applies only to a gas supply chain facility
that is:
(1) included on the electricity supply chain map
created under Section 38.203, Utilities Code,[;] and
[(2)] designated as critical by the commission in the
manner provided by Section 81.073; or
(2) a facility used for producing natural gas.
SECTION 3. Section 81.073, Natural Resources Code, as added
by Section 1, Chapter 931 (H.B. 3648), Acts of the 87th Legislature,
Regular Session, 2021, is repealed.
SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act to Section
86.044(b), Natural Resources Code, applies only to a facility for
which drilling is begun on or after the effective date of this Act.
A facility for which drilling was begun before the effective date of
this Act is governed by the law in effect at the time drilling was
begun, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the
last day of the legislative session.