bill making the utility commission count power shutoffs

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89R116 CXP-D

By: Hinojosa of Hidalgo
S.B. No. 426

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to a report by the Public Utility Commission of Texas on

disconnections of residential retail electric service.

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

SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 17, Utilities Code, is

amended by adding Section 17.054 to read as follows:

Sec. 17.054. SUMMER RESIDENTIAL SERVICE DISCONNECTION

REPORT. (a) Not later than June 1 of each year, the commission

shall create and publish on the commission's Internet website a

report of the total number of residential customers of retail

electric service in this state whose accounts are disconnected for

nonpayment of bills as of the date of the report. Until September

30 of each year, the commission shall update the report at least

weekly to show the total number of residential customers of retail

electric service whose accounts are disconnected for nonpayment of

bills at the time of the update.

(b) The commission by rule may require any entity under the

commission's jurisdiction that provides retail electric service to

a residential customer and any other market participant under the

commission's jurisdiction to submit to the commission information

necessary for the commission to comply with Subsection (a). The

rules must prescribe the nature and detail of the required

information.

SECTION 2. The Public Utility Commission of Texas shall

publish the first report required under Section 17.054, Utilities

Code, as added by this Act, not later than June 1, 2026.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.