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| 2 | 2 | | By: Parker S.B. No. 2434 |
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| 7 | 7 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 8 | 8 | | AN ACT |
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| 9 | 9 | | relating to the prioritization of natural gas deliveries to certain |
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| 10 | 10 | | electric power generation units. |
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| 11 | 11 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 12 | 12 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 121, Utilities Code, is |
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| 13 | 13 | | amended by adding Section 121.159 to read as follows: |
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| 14 | 14 | | Sec. 121.159. PRIORITY OF NATURAL GAS DELIVERY DURING |
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| 15 | 15 | | CURTAILMENT EVENT. (a) In this section, "human needs customers" |
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| 16 | 16 | | includes: |
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| 17 | 17 | | (1) residences, hospitals, water and wastewater |
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| 18 | 18 | | facilities, and police, fire, and military and civil defense |
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| 19 | 19 | | facilities; |
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| 20 | 20 | | (2) other locations where people may congregate in an |
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| 21 | 21 | | emergency; |
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| 22 | 22 | | (3) small commercial customers that cannot |
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| 23 | 23 | | practicably be curtailed without curtailing human needs; |
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| 24 | 24 | | (4) natural-gas-fired electric generation facilities; |
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| 25 | 25 | | and |
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| 26 | 26 | | (5) any other customers identified by rule by the |
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| 27 | 27 | | railroad commission. |
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| 28 | 28 | | (b) A gas utility that determines that the utility's ability |
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| 29 | 29 | | to deliver natural gas may become inadequate to support continuous |
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| 30 | 30 | | service to customers on the utility's intrastate system and that |
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| 31 | 31 | | reduces intrastate deliveries to one or more customers shall |
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| 32 | 32 | | prioritize natural gas deliveries to natural-gas-fired electric |
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| 33 | 33 | | generation facilities at the same level as natural gas deliveries |
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| 34 | 34 | | to other human needs customers and local distribution systems that |
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| 35 | 35 | | serve those human needs customers. |
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| 36 | 36 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |
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