Relating to the creation of a list of priority facilities by electric utilities, the official text

H.B. No. 1584

AN ACT

relating to the creation of a list of priority facilities by

electric utilities.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 38, Utilities Code, is

amended by adding Section 38.0725 to read as follows:

Sec. 38.0725. LIST OF PRIORITY FACILITIES. (a) In this

section, "priority facility" means:

(1) a facility listed in Section 38.072(b); or

(2) a facility for which electric service is

considered crucial for the protection or maintenance of public

safety, including:

(A) a hospital;

(B) a police station;

(C) a fire station;

(D) a critical water or wastewater facility; and

(E) a confinement facility operated by or under a

contract with any division of the Texas Department of Criminal

Justice.

(b) An electric utility shall maintain a list of priority

facilities in the utility's retail service area that includes the

following information:

(1) the name of each priority facility;

(2) the type of each priority facility; and

(3) the address of each priority facility.

(c) An electric utility shall provide on the utility's

Internet website a mechanism for a facility to request that the

utility add the facility to the priority facility list. The

electric utility shall add the requested facility to the list only

if the facility is a priority facility.

(d) On request from a facility, an electric utility shall

disclose to the facility not later than the 14th day after the date

the utility receives the request whether the facility is on the

priority facility list.

(e) Notwithstanding any other law, on a declaration of a

natural disaster or other emergency by the governor affecting the

service area of the electric utility, the utility shall provide the

list of priority facilities to the Texas Division of Emergency

Management.

(f) A priority facility list submitted to the Texas Division

of Emergency Management under this section is confidential and not

subject to disclosure under Chapter 552, Government Code. The

commission may establish additional processes for protecting

consumer information under this section as the commission

determines necessary.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

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President of the Senate
Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 1584 was passed by the House on April

30, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0, 2 present, not

voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.

No. 1584 on May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 129, Nays 1,

1 present, not voting.

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Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 1584 was passed by the Senate, with

amendments, on May 21, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays

1.

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Secretary of the Senate

APPROVED: __________________

Date

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Governor