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Senate panel hears opponents, utilities clash over HB 3306 indemnity changes for electric infrastructure contracts
Summary
The Senate Committee on Business & Commerce heard divided testimony on HB 3306, a bill that would allow broader indemnity language for construction contracts tied to electric utility infrastructure, maintenance and vegetation management.
The Senate Committee on Business & Commerce on an unspecified date heard testimony on House Bill 3306, which would add construction contracts for electric infrastructure, maintenance and vegetation management to statutory exceptions that allow broader indemnity provisions.
The measure’s sponsor described the bill as a refinement of the insurance code to treat certain electric infrastructure work like public works. “This bill, HB 3,306, by Chairman Dean, would add to those exceptions a provision in a construction contract related to electric infrastructure construction maintenance, or vegetation management, for an electric utility or a transmission and distribution utility,” the sponsor said.
The bill drew sharply different testimony. Fred Wilshus, general counsel for the Texas…
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