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HJR218 • 2025

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the use of money from the Texas energy fund for energy efficiency projects conducted to benefit retail electric customers.

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the use of money from the Texas energy fund for energy efficiency projects conducted to benefit retail electric customers.

Energy
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Davis, Yvonne
Last action
2025-05-16
Official status
05/16/2025 H Postponed
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the use of money from the Texas energy fund for energy efficiency projects conducted to benefit retail electric customers.

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the use of money from the Texas energy fund for energy efficiency projects conducted to benefit retail electric customers.

What This Bill Does

  • Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the use of money from the Texas energy fund for energy efficiency projects conducted to benefit retail electric customers.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid out as postponed business

  2. 2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Motion withdrawn

  3. 2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Postponed. 6/3/25 10:00 AM

  4. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid out as postponed business

  5. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Postponed. 5/16/25 9:00 AM

  6. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  7. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Postponed. 5/14/25 5:00 PM

  8. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid out as postponed business

  9. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Postponed. 5/15/25 9:00 AM

  10. 2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid out as postponed business

  11. 2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to engrossment

  12. 2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#2328

  13. 2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  14. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid out as postponed business

  15. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Postponed. 5/13/25 1:00 PM

  16. 2025-05-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on Constitutional Amendments Calendar

  17. 2025-05-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  18. 2025-05-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Postponed. 5/12/25 10:00 AM

  19. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  20. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  21. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  22. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  23. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  24. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  25. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee substitute considered in committee

  26. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  27. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  28. 2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  29. 2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to State Affairs

  30. 2025-03-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the use of money from the Texas energy fund for energy efficiency projects conducted to benefit retail electric customers.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) HJR 218 - House Committee Report version - Bill Text

89R23685 CS-F

By: Y. Davis of Dallas

H.J.R. No. 218

Substitute the following for H.J.R. No. 218:

By: King

C.S.H.J.R. No. 218

A JOINT RESOLUTION

proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the use of money

from the Texas energy fund for energy efficiency projects conducted

to benefit retail electric customers.

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

SECTION 1. Section 49-q(b), Article III, Texas

Constitution, is amended to read as follows:

(b) As provided by general law, money in the Texas energy

fund may be administered and used, without further appropriation,

only by the Public Utility Commission of Texas or that commission's

successor in function to provide loans and grants to any entity to

finance or incentivize the construction, maintenance,

modernization, and operation of electric generating facilities,

including associated infrastructure, necessary to ensure the

reliability or adequacy of an electric power grid in this state
and

to finance energy efficiency projects conducted to benefit retail

electric customers
. The commission shall allocate money from the

fund for loans and grants to eligible projects:

(1) for electric generating facilities that serve as

backup power sources; and

(2) in each region of the state that is part of an

electric power grid in proportion to that region's load share.

SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be

submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 4, 2025.

The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the

proposition: "The constitutional amendment to authorize the use of

money in the Texas energy fund for energy efficiency projects that

benefit retail electric customers."