Texas Tribune: Legislation could undermine Texas' power grid ability to meet forecasted demand

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.