89R6205 CXP-D
By: Parker S.B. No. 2434
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the prioritization of natural gas deliveries to certain
electric power generation units.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 121, Utilities Code, is
amended by adding Section 121.159 to read as follows:
Sec. 121.159. PRIORITY OF NATURAL GAS DELIVERY DURING
CURTAILMENT EVENT. (a) In this section, "human needs customers"
includes:
(1) residences, hospitals, water and wastewater
facilities, and police, fire, and military and civil defense
facilities;
(2) other locations where people may congregate in an
emergency;
(3) small commercial customers that cannot
practicably be curtailed without curtailing human needs;
(4) natural-gas-fired electric generation facilities;
and
(5) any other customers identified by rule by the
railroad commission.
(b) A gas utility that determines that the utility's ability
to deliver natural gas may become inadequate to support continuous
service to customers on the utility's intrastate system and that
reduces intrastate deliveries to one or more customers shall
prioritize natural gas deliveries to natural-gas-fired electric
generation facilities at the same level as natural gas deliveries
to other human needs customers and local distribution systems that
serve those human needs customers.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.