Texas 2023 - 88th Regular

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1	1	88R11574 ANG-F
2	2	By: Metcalf H.B. No. 3737
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to facilities included in the electricity supply chain.
8	8	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9	9	SECTION 1. Section 37.157, Utilities Code, is amended to
10	10	read as follows:
11	11	Sec. 37.157. MAPS. (a) An electric utility shall file with
12	12	the commission one or more maps that show each utility facility and
13	13	that separately illustrate each utility facility for the
14	14	generation, transmission, or distribution of the utility's
15	15	services on a date the commission orders.
16	16	(b) Each electric utility and municipally owned utility
17	17	shall provide the utility's service area boundary map in a
18	18	geographic information system format to the commission. The service
19	19	area boundary map may be provided to the commission in a geodatabase
20	20	feature class or shapefile.
21	21	SECTION 2. Section 38.201, Utilities Code, is amended by
22	22	amending Subsections (a), (b), and (c) and adding Subsection (a-1)
23	23	to read as follows:
24	24	(a) In this subchapter, "electricity supply chain" means:
25	25	(1) facilities and methods used for producing,
26	26	treating, processing, pressurizing, storing, or transporting
27	27	natural gas for delivery to electric generation facilities; [and]
28	28	(2) critical infrastructure necessary to maintain
29	29	electricity service; and
30	30	(3) roads necessary to access facilities in the
31	31	electricity supply chain.
32	32	(a-1) A reference in this subchapter to the "electricity
33	33	supply chain" includes water and wastewater treatment plants.
34	34	(b) The Texas Electricity Supply Chain Security and Mapping
35	35	Committee is established to:
36	36	(1) map this state's electricity supply chain;
37	37	(2) identify critical infrastructure sources in the
38	38	electricity supply chain;
39	39	(3) establish best practices to prepare facilities
40	40	[that provide electric service and natural gas service] in the
41	41	electricity supply chain to maintain service in an extreme weather
42	42	event and recommend oversight and compliance standards for those
43	43	facilities; and
44	44	(4) designate priority service needs to prepare for,
45	45	respond to, and recover from an extreme weather event.
46	46	(c) The committee is composed of:
47	47	(1) the executive director of the commission;
48	48	(2) the executive director of the Railroad Commission
49	49	of Texas;
50	50	(3) the president and the chief executive officer of
51	51	the independent organization certified under Section 39.151 for the
52	52	ERCOT power region; [and]
53	53	(4) the chief of the Texas Division of Emergency
54	54	Management; and
55	55	(5) the executive director of the Texas Department of
56	56	Transportation.
57	57	SECTION 3. Section 38.202(c), Utilities Code, is amended to
58	58	read as follows:
59	59	(c) The commission, the Railroad Commission of Texas, [and]
60	60	the Texas Division of Emergency Management, and the Texas
61	61	Department of Transportation shall provide staff as necessary to
62	62	assist the committee in carrying out the committee's duties and
63	63	responsibilities.
64	64	SECTION 4. Section 38.203, Utilities Code, is amended by
65	65	amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (f), (g), (h), and
66	66	(i) to read as follows:
67	67	(a) The committee shall:
68	68	(1) map the state's electricity supply chain in order
69	69	to designate priority electricity service needs during extreme
70	70	weather events;
71	71	(2) identify and designate the sources in the
72	72	electricity supply chain necessary to operate critical
73	73	infrastructure, as defined by Section 421.001, Government Code;
74	74	(3) develop a communication system between critical
75	75	infrastructure sources, the commission, and the independent
76	76	organization certified under Section 39.151 for the ERCOT power
77	77	region to ensure that electricity and natural gas supplies in the
78	78	electricity supply chain are prioritized to those sources during an
79	79	extreme weather event; and
80	80	(4) establish best practices to prepare facilities
81	81	[that provide electric service and natural gas service] in the
82	82	electricity supply chain to maintain service in an extreme weather
83	83	event and recommend oversight and compliance standards for those
84	84	facilities.
85	85	(f) On request, the committee shall provide view-only
86	86	access to the electricity supply chain map to:
87	87	(1) an electric utility, a transmission and
88	88	distribution utility, an electric cooperative, or a municipally
89	89	owned utility;
90	90	(2) an operator of a gas supply chain facility, as
91	91	defined by Section 86.044, Natural Resources Code; or
92	92	(3) an operator of a gas pipeline facility described
93	93	by Section 121.2015.
94	94	(g) Access to the electricity supply chain map by an entity
95	95	described by Subsection (f)(1) is limited to the critical natural
96	96	gas facilities on the map that are located in the requesting
97	97	entity's service area.
98	98	(h) The committee may not provide an entity described by
99	99	Subsection (f)(1) with access to the electricity supply chain map
100	100	unless the entity has complied with Section 37.157.
101	101	(i) Access to the electricity supply chain map by an
102	102	operator described by Subsections (f)(2) and (3) is limited to the
103	103	critical natural gas facilities owned by the requesting operator.
104	104	SECTION 5. The Public Utility Commission of Texas shall
105	105	require each entity to which Section 37.157(b), Utilities Code, as
106	106	added by this Act, applies to comply with that section not later
107	107	than September 30, 2023.
108	108	SECTION 6. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
109	109	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
110	110	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
111	111	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
112	112	Act takes effect September 1, 2023.