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2025 · Regular session · House bill

HB5323

HB5323 creates the Texas Energy Waste Advisory Committee to recommend better coordination of state programs that reduce wasted energy, improve efficiency and help manage electricity demand.

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Official caption: Relating to the creation of the Texas Energy Waste Advisory Committee.

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Bill highlights

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HB5323 creates the Texas Energy Waste Advisory Committee to recommend better coordination of state programs that reduce wasted energy, improve efficiency and help manage electricity demand.
The eight-member committee brings together the heads of the PUC, ERCOT, comptroller's office, Texas Facilities Commission, licensing department, housing department, environmental commission and General Land Office.
The law took effect September 1, 2025.
Sources: final law; official history.

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What does it do?

HB5323 creates the Texas Energy Waste Advisory Committee to recommend better coordination of state programs that reduce wasted energy, improve efficiency and help manage electricity demand. Its focus is reliability in the ERCOT power region, especially reducing demand during high-risk hours identified by the Public Utility Commission.

The eight-member committee brings together the heads of the PUC, ERCOT, comptroller’s office, Texas Facilities Commission, licensing department, housing department, environmental commission and General Land Office. Members may designate employees to serve instead. The PUC chairs and staffs the committee, which must meet quarterly at the chair’s call.

The law took effect September 1, 2025. It requires recommendations and a report to the legislature by December 1 of each even-numbered year; it does not itself require households to cut electricity use, set a savings target or create a rebate entitlement.

Sources: final law; official history.

What changed along the way?

The introduced bill proposed seven members and a September 1 reporting deadline. The House committee report, House-passed version and Senate committee version retained that structure.

Senator Hancock’s adopted floor amendment made four changes: seven members became eight; the Texas Facilities Commission’s executive director gained a seat; that agency was added to the organizations from which the committee solicits information and to which it makes recommendations; and the reporting month moved from September to December. All four changes appear in the final law.

The House concurred in the Senate changes on May 28, and the governor signed the bill June 20. The September 1, 2025 effective date is explicit in the act. The law adds a new advisory chapter; its reference to existing electricity-reliability law does not make the older reserve-service requirements new provisions of HB5323.

Sources: five text versions; amendment index; adopted Hancock amendment.

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Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?

Agencies gain a formal way to compare programs and recommend changes that could reduce pressure on the grid. The State Energy Conservation Office is among the organizations consulted, but does not have its own separately listed committee seat. The law does not demonstrate that savings or reliability improvements have already occurred.

There is a substantial transparency tradeoff: the committee is exempt from the state’s open-meetings and public-information chapters. The exception preserves information access for legislators and legislative bodies under Government Code Section 552.008, including requests for confidential information for legislative purposes. That section permits confidentiality safeguards; it does not turn confidential records into generally public records.

The May 23 fiscal note anticipates no significant state or local fiscal impact and assumes costs can be absorbed using existing resources. The introduced and engrossed notes reach the same conclusion. This is an estimate of administrative cost, not a quantified promise of lower electric bills.

Review boundary: the complete final act, official history, all five versions, the single indexed amendment and its adopted disposition, all four indexed fiscal-note files, and relevant prior statutory definitions, reliability provisions and legislative-information rules were checked. No claim is made about current appointments, meetings, reports or implementation outcomes.

Sources: final fiscal note; legislative information access; existing reliability framework.

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Catalog report retrieved 2026-10-25. Check the official record for corrections or later changes.