News & Analysis as of

Rulemaking Process Texas

Balch & Bingham LLP

Texas SB 6 Overhauls Rules for Large Energy Loads in ERCOT

Balch & Bingham LLP on

A new state law in Texas, SB 6, significantly changes how large loads interconnect with and operate within The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid. Energy companies developing large data centers, crypto...more

K&L Gates LLP

Request for Comments on Rulemaking to Implement Firming Reliability Requirements for Electric-Generating Facilities in the ERCOT...

K&L Gates LLP on

Legislative Background - On Friday, 6 June 2025, the Public Utility Commission of Texas (the PUCT or the Commission) released a memorandum detailing the new requirements set forth under House Bill 1500 (HB 1500) (88 Reg....more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Texas Progresses Toward CCS Primacy

Vinson & Elkins LLP on

This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took the penultimate step to granting Texas the authority to directly issue Class VI permits under the Safe Drinking Water Act’s Underground Injection Control (UIC)...more

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Carbon Sequestration Advances in Texas as EPA Proposes to Grant Class VI Primacy

Baker Botts L.L.P. on

On June 9, 2025, EPA issued a prepublication version of the proposed rule granting Class VI underground injection control (“UIC”) primary enforcement authority (“primacy”) to Texas. Class VI UIC wells are used for the...more

Freeman Law

Texas Comptroller Adopts Amended Data Processing Rule

Freeman Law on

On March 28, 2025, the Texas Comptroller of Public Account (the “Comptroller”) finalized amendments to Rule 3.330, Data Processing Services, for purposes of the Texas sales and use tax....more

Beveridge & Diamond PC

Texas District Court Rules FWS Must Consider the Cost of Protecting Threatened Species

Beveridge & Diamond PC on

On March 29, 2025, a Texas District Court ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) should have considered economic costs when crafting protections for the lesser-prairie chicken, a threatened species, under Section...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Potential Changes Ahead: Texas Supreme Court Considers Rule Amendments to Petition for Review Process

Vinson & Elkins LLP on

On February 7, 2025, Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice James D. Blacklock asked the Supreme Court Advisory Committee (the “Committee”) to “study and make recommendations on eliminat[ing] [ ] the Court’s current practice of...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Texas Passes Law Expanding Mortgage Borrower Protections

Effective November 23, 2024, the Texas Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending (the “DSML”) adopted new rules affecting mortgage loan companies, mortgage bankers, individual residential mortgage loan originators, and...more

ArentFox Schiff

No More Surprise Medical Bills: Providers Score Yet Another Victory as Texas Court Again Vacates Provisions of Biden...

ArentFox Schiff on

On August 24, 2023, health care providers in Texas scored yet another victory when a federal court vacated additional portions of the Biden Administration’s rulemaking under the federal No Surprises Act (the Act). This marked...more

McDermott+

Implementation of the No Surprises Act Is Full of Surprises: What We Do and Don’t Know

McDermott+ on

It’s likely no surprise to anyone who has been following the implementation of the No Surprises Act over the last couple of years that we again find ourselves on an uncertain path. While Regs & Eggs has focused on some of the...more

ArentFox Schiff

No More Surprise Medical Bills: Providers Continue to Pursue Additional Challenges to Government Rulemaking Under No Surprises Act

ArentFox Schiff on

In parallel cases, health care providers are continuing to challenge rulemaking by the US Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services (the Departments) under the No Surprises Act (the Act). Having already...more

ArentFox Schiff

Texas Court Vacates Arbitration Provisions of Biden Administration Surprise Billing Rule

ArentFox Schiff on

On February 23, 2022, in what is being heralded as a significant victory for health care providers, a federal court in Texas vacated portions of the Biden Administration’s rules governing the arbitration procedures to resolve...more

12 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide