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  89R6205 CXP-D     By: Parker S.B. No. 2434       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to the prioritization of natural gas deliveries to certain   electric power generation units.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 121, Utilities Code, is   amended by adding Section 121.159 to read as follows:           Sec.   121.159.     PRIORITY OF NATURAL GAS DELIVERY DURING   CURTAILMENT EVENT. (a)   In this section, "human needs customers"   includes:                   (1)     residences, hospitals, water and wastewater   facilities, and police, fire, and military and civil defense   facilities;                 (2)     other locations where people may congregate in an   emergency;                 (3)     small commercial customers that cannot   practicably be curtailed without curtailing human needs;                 (4)     natural-gas-fired electric generation facilities;   and                 (5)     any other customers identified by rule by the   railroad commission.           (b)     A gas utility that determines that the utility's ability   to deliver natural gas may become inadequate to support continuous   service to customers on the utility's intrastate system and that   reduces intrastate deliveries to one or more customers shall   prioritize natural gas deliveries to natural-gas-fired electric   generation facilities at the same level as natural gas deliveries   to other human needs customers and local distribution systems that   serve those human needs customers.          SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.