Houston Chronicle: Lawmakers push to revive fund inspired by Sylvester Turner to help low-income Texans with power bills

Session after session, then-state Rep. Sylvester Turner introduced legislation to force Texas lawmakers to spend hundreds of millions of dollars collected from utility ratepayers for the money’s intended purpose: Helping low-income families pay their electricity bills. Now, nearly a decade later, some lawmakers want to re-establish a similar program inspired by Turner, who unexpectedly died from health complications last month.