Amend HB 99 as follows:
      (1)  In Section 418.073(a), Government Code, as amended by
SECTION 8 of the bill, (page 3, lines 47 and 48, senate committee
report printing), strike "dedicated fund in the state treasury."
and substitute "trust fund established in the Texas Treasury
Safekeeping  Trust Company, and shall be administered by that
company as provided by Subchapter G, Chapter 404.".
      (2)  In Section 1.3531, Public Utility Regulatory Act of 1995
(Article 1446c-0, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as added by
SECTION 9 of the bill (page 4, lines 15-21, senate committee report
printing), strike  Subsection (a)  and substitute the following:
(a)  In addition to the assessment imposed on each public utility
within the commission's jurisdiction under Section 1.351 of this
Act, an annual assessment is imposed under this section on each
electric utility and municipally owned utility serving the ultimate
customer.
      (3)  In Section 1.3531(f), Public Utility Regulatory Act of
1995 (Article 1446c-0, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as added by
SECTION 9 of the bill (page 4, line 44, senate committee report
printing) strike "Section 1.352 of this Act applies" and substitute
"Sections 1.352 and 1.353 of this Act apply".
      (4)  Strike SECTIONS 11 and 12 of the bill, senate committee
report printing, and substitute the following:
      SECTION 11.  The importance of this legislation and the
crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
passage, and it is so enacted.