SB 1308

relating to the development by certain entities providing electric
service in the ERCOT power region of a communication plan for use
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1.  Section 38.075, Utilities Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows:
(c-1)  The commission by rule shall require each electric
cooperative, municipally owned utility, and transmission and
distribution utility providing transmission service in the ERCOT
power region to develop a communication plan for use during a
weather emergency.  The communication plan must:
(1)  include the operation by the cooperative or
utility of a priority telephone hotline to allow only the following
types of customers to report and request information regarding a
power outage, including requesting an estimated time for
restoration of electric service:
(A)  critical care residential customers, as
(B)  critical load industrial customers, as
(C)  facilities listed in Section 38.072(b); and
(D)  customers designated as critical load
according to commission rules adopted under Section 38.076; and
(2)  describe the methods the cooperative or utility
will use to inform customers described by Subdivision (1) about the
SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.