TITLE: Relating to the prioritization of natural gas deliveries to certain electric power generation units.

SUMMARY: Relating to the prioritization of natural gas deliveries to certain electric power generation units.

FULL TEXT:
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.