---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the response and resilience of certain electricity service providers to major weather-related events or other natural disasters; granting authority to issue bonds."
description: "Relating to the response and resilience of certain electricity service providers to major weather-related events or other natural disasters; granting authority to issue bonds."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "87"
identifier: "HB 1510"
citation: "Texas HB 1510 (87)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Charitable & Nonprofit Organizations (I0055)", "Corporations & Associations (I0090)", "Disaster Preparedness & Relief (I0211)", "ELECTRIC UTILITY SYSTEM RESTORATION CORPORATION", "TEXAS (VZ00C)", "Oil & Gas (I0545)", "PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION (V0023)", "Utilities--Electric (I0831)", "Utilities--Natural Gas (I0001)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burrows", "Creighton", "Hefner", "Metcalf", "Moody", "Paddie"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 48
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-03-11"
last_action: "2021-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30fdc0aa-c633-4c0b-8284-841864edb57c"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/87R/billhistory/house_bills/HB01500_HB01599/HB 1510.xml"
source_hash: "6083fa0b654f4caa921df0da36d2c9b3b5c5d7dc8ee6f3796deb2431d1b31271"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tx"]
---

# Texas HB 1510 (87) — Relating to the response and resilience of certain electricity service providers to major weather-related events or other natural disasters; granting authority to issue bonds.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB01510I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB01510E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB01510H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB01510S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB01510F.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **145–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Burrows — primary (person)
- Creighton — primary (person)
- Hefner — primary (person)
- Metcalf — primary (person)
- Moody — primary (person)
- Paddie — primary (person)
- Bailes — cosponsor (person)
- Bell, Cecil — cosponsor (person)
- Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
- Fierro — cosponsor (person)
- Frullo — cosponsor (person)
- Guillen — cosponsor (person)
- Huberty — cosponsor (person)
- King, Ken — cosponsor (person)
- Morales, Eddie — cosponsor (person)
- Toth — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-03-11** Filed `filing`
- **2021-03-15** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-03-15** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** Considered in public hearing
- **2021-03-23** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2021-03-23** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2021-03-23** Left pending in committee
- **2021-04-01** Considered in public hearing
- **2021-04-01** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2021-04-01** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-12** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2021-04-12** Committee report distributed
- **2021-04-12** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2021-04-15** Considered in Calendars
- **2021-04-19** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2021-04-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-19** Passed to engrossment
- **2021-04-19** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2021-04-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-20** Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-20** Record vote
- **2021-04-20** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2021-04-20** Reported engrossed
- **2021-04-20** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2021-04-21** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-04-21** Referred to Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-22** Rereferred to committee
- **2021-04-22** Referred to Business & Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-04** Considered in public hearing
- **2021-05-04** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-04** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2021-05-04** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2021-05-19** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2021-05-19** Laid before the Senate
- **2021-05-19** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
- **2021-05-19** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2021-05-19** Three day rule suspended
- **2021-05-19** Record vote
- **2021-05-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-05-19** Passed `passage`
- **2021-05-19** Record vote
- **2021-05-19** Senate passage reported
- **2021-05-19** Reported enrolled
- **2021-05-20** Signed in the House
- **2021-05-22** Signed in the Senate
- **2021-05-22** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-01** Effective immediately `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/30fdc0aa-c633-4c0b-8284-841864edb57c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).