There are 42 days left in the Texas legislative session.
Texas House of Representatives:
- Convenes at 11 a.m.
- Considering 29 bills total (CALENDAR)
- HB 14 – State Rep. Craig Goldman (R-Ft. Worth) – Creation of TX Electricity Supply Chain Security & Mapping Committee [ERCOT/PUC/Winter Storm]
- HB 1520 – State Rep. Chris Paddie (R-Mashall) – Provides for securitization financing to enable gas utilities to recover extraordinary costs from catastrophic events [ERCOT/PUC/Winter Storm]
- HB 1510 – State Rep. Will Metcalf (R-Montgomery) – Provides for the recovery of costs incurred through lower-cost securitization financing for certain electric utilities [ERCOT/PUC/Winter Storm]
- HB 3648 – State Rep. Charlie Geren (R-Ft. Worth) – Requires the PUC and Railroad Commission to work together to adopt certain rules to designate certain gas entities and facilities as critical during an emergency [ERCOT/PUC/Winter Storm]
- HB 1752 – State Rep. Tom Craddick (R-Midland) – Establishes that a person that is not considered an electric utility is not regulated as such simply for entering into a transaction by the wattage hour [ERCOT/PUC/Winter Storm]
- HB 2189 – State Rep. Phil King (R-Weatherford) – Tax dollars not being used to promote an agenda that hurts the state’s energy sector and the economy as a whole by prohibiting investments by certain state entities in companies that boycott these energy companies [ESG]
- HB 2053 – State Rep. Stephanie Klick (R-Ft. Worth) – Licensing & regulation of genetic counselors; license & fee
- HB 129 – State Rep. Mary Gonzalez (D-El Paso) – Digital citizenship instruction in public schools; sixth-grade curriculum on media literacy & credible sources of information, digital ethics and identification of rhetoric that incites violence, cyberbullying prevention
- HB 2374 – State Rep. Scott Sanford (R-McKinney) – DFPS “Efficiency Audits”
Texas Senate:
- [9:36 PM] Convenes at 8 a.m.
- Will deliberate LOCAL & UNCONTESTED CALENDAR
- Several priorities still on INTENT CALENDAR
- Sunset Bills: SB 700 – Texas Parks & Wildlife; SB 703 – Dep. of Agriculture, Prescribed Burning Board, TX Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation, and abolishment of the Early Childhood Health & Nutrition Interagency Council; SB 707 – Credit Union Department & Credit Union Commission
- SB 1699 – State Sen. Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola) – Protects the ability of student organizations formed for the purpose of exercising expressive rights to establish and maintain membership and leadership qualifications that further their expressive purpose
Start your week off right and in the know as Jeramy Kitchen delivers a preview of the action in the Texas Legislature.
