Bill Amendment: TX HB1500 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature
NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List
Bill Title: Relating to the continuation and functions of the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Office of Public Utility Counsel, and the functions of the independent organization certified for the ERCOT power region; increasing an administrative penalty.
Status: 2023-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1500 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1500-Senate_Amendment_S_2_F5-Schwertner.html
Bill Title: Relating to the continuation and functions of the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Office of Public Utility Counsel, and the functions of the independent organization certified for the ERCOT power region; increasing an administrative penalty.
Status: 2023-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1500 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1500-Senate_Amendment_S_2_F5-Schwertner.html
Amend CSHB 1500 (senate committee printing) in SECTION 16 of the bill, in added Section 39.1594, Utilities Code (page 9, between lines 46 and 47), by inserting the following:
(e) If the commission adopts a program described by Subsection (a), the commission by rule shall prohibit a generator that receives credits through the program from decommissioning or removing from service while the generator participates in the program any dispatchable electric generating facility operated by the generator unless the decommissioning or removal from service begins after September 1, 2028, or the commission finds that the decommissioning or removal from service:
(1) is required by federal law; or
(2) would alleviate significant financial hardship for the generator.
