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1	1	S.B. No. 1093
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4	4	AN ACT
5	5	relating to facilities included in the electricity supply chain.
6	6	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
7	7	SECTION 1. Section 37.157, Utilities Code, is amended to
8	8	read as follows:
9	9	Sec. 37.157. MAPS. (a) An electric utility shall file
10	10	with the commission one or more maps that show each utility facility
11	11	and that separately illustrate each utility facility for the
12	12	generation, transmission, or distribution of the utility's
13	13	services on a date the commission orders.
14	14	(b) Each electric utility, transmission and distribution
15	15	utility, electric cooperative, and municipally owned utility shall
16	16	provide the utility's service area boundary map, using good faith
17	17	efforts, in a geographic information system format to the
18	18	commission. The service area boundary map may be provided to the
19	19	commission in a geodatabase feature class or shapefile.
20	20	SECTION 2. Section 38.201, Utilities Code, is amended by
21	21	amending Subsections (a), (b), and (c) and adding Subsection (a-1)
22	22	to read as follows:
23	23	(a) In this subchapter, "electricity supply chain" means:
24	24	(1) facilities and methods used for producing,
25	25	treating, processing, pressurizing, storing, or transporting
26	26	natural gas for delivery to electric generation facilities; [and]
27	27	(2) critical infrastructure necessary to maintain
28	28	electricity service; and
29	29	(3) roads necessary to access facilities in the
30	30	electricity supply chain.
31	31	(a-1) A reference in this subchapter to the "electricity
32	32	supply chain" includes water and wastewater treatment plants.
33	33	(b) The Texas Electricity Supply Chain Security and Mapping
34	34	Committee is established to:
35	35	(1) map this state's electricity supply chain;
36	36	(2) identify critical infrastructure sources in the
37	37	electricity supply chain;
38	38	(3) establish best practices to prepare facilities
39	39	[that provide electric service and natural gas service] in the
40	40	electricity supply chain to maintain service in an extreme weather
41	41	event and recommend oversight and compliance standards for those
42	42	facilities; and
43	43	(4) designate priority service needs to prepare for,
44	44	respond to, and recover from an extreme weather event.
45	45	(c) The committee is composed of:
46	46	(1) the executive director of the commission;
47	47	(2) the executive director of the Railroad Commission
48	48	of Texas;
49	49	(3) the president and the chief executive officer of
50	50	the independent organization certified under Section 39.151 for the
51	51	ERCOT power region; [and]
52	52	(4) the chief of the Texas Division of Emergency
53	53	Management; and
54	54	(5) the executive director of the Texas Department of
55	55	Transportation.
56	56	SECTION 3. Section 38.202(c), Utilities Code, is amended to
57	57	read as follows:
58	58	(c) The commission, the Railroad Commission of Texas, [and]
59	59	the Texas Division of Emergency Management, and the Texas
60	60	Department of Transportation shall provide staff as necessary to
61	61	assist the committee in carrying out the committee's duties and
62	62	responsibilities.
63	63	SECTION 4. Section 38.203, Utilities Code, is amended by
64	64	amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (f), (g), (h), and
65	65	(i) to read as follows:
66	66	(a) The committee shall:
67	67	(1) map the state's electricity supply chain in order
68	68	to designate priority electricity service needs during extreme
69	69	weather events;
70	70	(2) identify and designate the sources in the
71	71	electricity supply chain necessary to operate critical
72	72	infrastructure, as defined by Section 421.001, Government Code;
73	73	(3) develop a communication system between critical
74	74	infrastructure sources, the commission, and the independent
75	75	organization certified under Section 39.151 for the ERCOT power
76	76	region to ensure that electricity and natural gas supplies in the
77	77	electricity supply chain are prioritized to those sources during an
78	78	extreme weather event; and
79	79	(4) establish best practices to prepare facilities
80	80	[that provide electric service and natural gas service] in the
81	81	electricity supply chain to maintain service in an extreme weather
82	82	event and recommend oversight and compliance standards for those
83	83	facilities.
84	84	(f) On request, the committee shall provide view-only
85	85	access to the electricity supply chain map to:
86	86	(1) an electric utility, a transmission and
87	87	distribution utility, an electric cooperative, or a municipally
88	88	owned utility;
89	89	(2) an operator of a gas supply chain facility, as
90	90	defined by Section 86.044, Natural Resources Code; or
91	91	(3) an operator of a gas pipeline facility described
92	92	by Section 121.2015.
93	93	(g) Access to the electricity supply chain map by an entity
94	94	described by Subsection (f)(1) is limited to the critical natural
95	95	gas facilities on the map that are located in the requesting
96	96	entity's service area.
97	97	(h) The committee may not provide an entity described by
98	98	Subsection (f)(1) with access to the electricity supply chain map
99	99	unless the entity has complied with Section 37.157.
100	100	(i) Access to the electricity supply chain map by an
101	101	operator described by Subsections (f)(2) and (3) is limited to the
102	102	critical natural gas facilities operated by the requesting
103	103	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.
113	113	______________________________ ______________________________
114	114	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
115	115	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1093 passed the Senate on
116	116	April 20, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
117	117	______________________________
118	118	Secretary of the Senate
119	119	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1093 passed the House on
120	120	May 6, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 133, Nays 1, two present
121	121	not voting.
122	122	______________________________
123	123	Chief Clerk of the House
124	124	Approved:
125	125	______________________________
126	126	Date
127	127	______________________________
128	128	Governor