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SB2321 • 2025

Relating to the regulation of emissions by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality during an event affecting electric demand or grid reliability.

Relating to the regulation of emissions by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality during an event affecting electric demand or grid reliability.

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
King
Last action
2025-06-20
Official status
06/20/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25
Effective date
2025-06-20

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Relating to the regulation of emissions by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality during an event affecting electric demand or grid reliability.

Relating to the regulation of emissions by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality during an event affecting electric demand or grid reliability.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to the regulation of emissions by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality during an event affecting electric demand or grid reliability.

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. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Effective on 9/1/25

  3. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the House

  4. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Sent to the Governor

  5. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported

  6. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported enrolled

  7. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the Senate

  8. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    House amendment(s) laid before the Senate

  9. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Read

  10. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate concurs in House amendment(s)

  11. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  12. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  13. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  14. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#3878

  15. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  16. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    House passage as amended reported

  17. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  18. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to 3rd reading

  19. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#3767

  20. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  21. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  22. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  23. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  24. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  25. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  26. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  27. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee substitute considered in committee

  28. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  29. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  30. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee substitute considered in committee

  31. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  32. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  33. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  34. 2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  35. 2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Environmental Regulation

  36. 2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the Senate

  37. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on local & uncontested calendar

  38. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid before the Senate

  39. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment

  40. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  41. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  42. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  43. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  44. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  45. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  46. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  47. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Not again placed on intent calendar

  48. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on intent calendar

  49. 2025-04-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  50. 2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendments

  51. 2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  52. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  53. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  54. 2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  55. 2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  56. 2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken in committee

  57. 2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  58. 2025-03-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  59. 2025-03-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Business & Commerce

  60. 2025-03-11 Texas Legislature Online

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

  61. 2025-03-11 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the regulation of emissions by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality during an event affecting electric demand or grid reliability.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) SB 2321 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

S.B. No. 2321

AN ACT

relating to the regulation of emissions by the Texas Commission on

Environmental Quality during an event affecting electric demand or

grid reliability.

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

SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 382, Health and Safety

Code, is amended by adding Section 382.086 to read as follows:

Sec.

382.086.

ENFORCEMENT DURING ELECTRIC DEMAND AND

RELIABILITY EVENT. (a) The commission may exercise the

commission's enforcement discretion to waive enforcement for

emissions from electric generation facilities and on-site backup

generation facilities in this state during a period requested by an

independent system operator if the independent system operator

notifies the commission that additional electric generation is

necessary to mitigate an emergency condition or a significant risk

of an emergency condition.

(b)

After an independent system operator submits a

notification to the commission under Subsection (a):

(1)

the independent system operator shall notify

market participants in this state of the period in the notification

during which limits or standards described by Subdivision (2) may

not apply to the operation of an electric generation facility or

on-site backup generation facility in this state; and

(2)

notwithstanding any other state law and subject to

Subsection (d), the commission has the discretion to enforce a rule

or standard, including an emissions limit or standard, hours of

operation limit, or any similar operational limit, against the

owner or operator of an electric generation facility or on-site

backup generation facility for the period in the notification.

(c)

The owner or operator of an electric generation facility

or on-site backup generation facility eligible for waived

enforcement during the period in a notification submitted under

Subsection (a) shall:

(1)

take commercially reasonable steps to operate

environmental controls and minimize excess emissions during the

period;

(2)

maintain operational records during the period;

and

(3)

submit proper documentation of the facility's

operational records to the commission, including:

(A) the facility's name;

(B) a contact name and phone number;

(C) the county in which the facility is located;

(D)

the customer reference number issued to the

facility by the commission;

(E)

the name of any units in the facility that

exceeded an emissions limit or standard during the period; and

(F)

a description of the emissions event,

including the date, time, pollutant, quantity, and duration.

(d)

The commission has the discretion to consider whether an

exceedance of an emissions limit or standard during a period for

which a notification is submitted under Subsection (a) is

appropriate as the basis for an enforcement action against the

owner or operator of an electric generation facility or on-site

backup generation facility based on information available to the

commission, including information contained in the documentation

required by Subsection (c)(3).

(e)

The owner or operator of an electric generation facility

or an on-site backup generation facility eligible for waived

enforcement during the period in a notification submitted under

Subsection (a) shall report any exceedance of an emissions limit or

standard in accordance with commission regulations and permit

requirements.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

______________________________

______________________________

President of the Senate

Speaker of the House

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2321 passed the Senate on

April 16, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that

the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 30, 2025, by the

following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2321 passed the House, with

amendment, on May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 140,

Nays 2, one present not voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

Approved:

______________________________

Date

______________________________

Governor