Introduced
Texas : 2025 Regular Session : BILL SB1312
Relating to the disconnection of electric service by certain entities during an extreme weather emergency.
Sponsor: Sen Molly Cook
Bill Details
Relating to the disconnection of electric service by certain entities during an extreme weather emergency.
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- Fri 14 Feb 2025 Received by the Secretary of the Senate
- Fri 14 Feb 2025 Filed
- Fri 28 Feb 2025 Read first time
- Fri 28 Feb 2025 Referred to Business & Commerce
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| 89R9151 SCR-D | ||
| By: Cook | S.B. No. 1312 | |
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| relating to the disconnection of electric service by certain | ||
| entities during an extreme weather emergency. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 39.101(h), Utilities Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (h) A retail electric provider, power generation company, | ||
| aggregator, or other entity that provides retail electric service | ||
| may not disconnect service to a residential customer during an | ||
| extreme weather emergency or on a weekend day. The entity providing | ||
| service shall defer collection of the full payment of bills that are | ||
| due during an extreme weather emergency until after the emergency | ||
| is over and shall work with customers to establish a pay schedule | ||
| for deferred bills. For purposes of this subsection, "extreme | ||
| weather emergency" means a period when: | ||
| (1) the previous day's highest temperature did not | ||
| exceed 32 degrees Fahrenheit and the temperature is predicted to | ||
| remain at or below that level for the next 24 hours according to the | ||
| nearest National Weather Service reports; [ |
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| (2) the National Weather Service issues a heat | ||
| advisory for any county in the relevant service territory, or when | ||
| such an advisory has been issued on any one of the previous two | ||
| calendar days; or | ||
| (3) any county in the relevant service territory is | ||
| the subject of a weather-related disaster declaration by the | ||
| governor under Chapter 418, Government Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||