Abilene, TX – The storm that left more than 4.8 million homes without electricity and more than 100 people died.
The Texas House and Senate made last-minute changes to the bills.
Senate Bill 2 and Senate Bill 3 will still need to be approved by Gov. Abbott.
Texas lawmakers approved a bill to require power generation companies to better prepare their facilities to withstand extreme weather.
The requirement for power generators and transmission lines to weatherize had broad support in both the House and Senate for inclusion in Senate Bill 3, a sweeping piece of legislation that attempts to overhaul the state’s power grid laws and was approved by both chambers Sunday night.
The House had advanced a $2 billion plan to help power companies pay for the upgrades, but the bill to create the fund with the state’s rainy day fund dollars for the low-cost loans and grants stalled in the Senate and no language is included in Senate Bill 3 to create the fund.
