88(R) HB 3508 - House Committee Report version - Bill Text

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	By:  Hernandez	H.B.  No.  3508
	Substitute the following for  H.B.  No.  3508:
	By:    Turner	C.S.H.B.  No.  3508

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the operation of public electric vehicle charging

stations.

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

SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 2, Utilities Code, is amended

by adding Chapter 42 to read as follows:

CHAPTER 42. PUBLIC CHARGING OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES

Sec. 42.0101. LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS. (a) The legislature

finds that it is in the best interests of this state to continue the

long-standing policy of supporting private sector investment in

infrastructure by establishing a framework designed to encourage

competitive private sector investment in the deployment of public

electric vehicle charging stations.

(b) The legislature finds that encouraging investment in

the deployment of public electric vehicle charging stations is

essential to foster the rapid installation and widespread use of

public electric vehicle charging stations on property whose owners

or tenants desire to install public electric vehicle charging

stations.

(c) The legislature finds that electric utilities,

transmission and distribution utilities, competitive entities, and

the commission have important roles to fill in supporting the

installation and use of infrastructure for electric vehicle

charging.

(d) The legislature finds that it is necessary to:

(1) implement competitively neutral policies to

encourage competitive private sector investment in public electric

vehicle charging station deployment;

(2) develop and implement competitively neutral

electricity tariffs that are optimized for public electric vehicle

charging stations and based on cost causation principles while

ensuring transparency in pricing and recognizing changing market

needs; and

(3) encourage competitive private investment,

ownership, and operation of public electric vehicle charging

stations, including equipment that allows for fast charging.

Sec. 42.0102. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:

(1) "Direct-current fast charging station" means a

charging system capable of delivering at least 50 kilowatts of

direct-current electrical power to an electric vehicle's

rechargeable battery at a voltage of 200 volts or greater.

(2) "Electric vehicle" means a vehicle that is

propelled by one or more electric motors using energy stored in the

form of a rechargeable battery.

(3) "Electric vehicle charging provider" means the

owner or operator of a public electric vehicle charging station.

The term does not include an electric utility or transmission and

distribution utility.

(4) "Electric vehicle charging service" means sales

made from a public electric vehicle charging station to the public.

(5) "Level two charging station" means a charging

system capable of delivering at least 3 and not more than 19.2

kilowatts of alternating-current electrical power to an electric

vehicle's rechargeable battery at a voltage of at least 208 volts on

a circuit of at least 40 amperes.

(6) "Make-ready infrastructure" means the electrical

infrastructure required to service a public electric vehicle

charging station's electrical load on the electric utility's or

transmission and distribution utility's side of the point of

delivery. The term:

(A) includes all site-specific electrical

infrastructure required to accommodate engineering, physical,

operational, or other constraints for the public electric vehicle

charging station, regardless of whether the infrastructure is on

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