Floor Packet Page No. 12
      Amend CSSB 7 (House committee report) as follows:
      (1) In Section 39.101 (a) (1), Utilities Code, as added by
SECTION 40 of the bill (page 50, line 4), strike "extreme weather
or in" and substitute "an extreme weather emergency as provided by
Subsection (h) or in".
      (2) In Section 39.101, Utilities Code, as added by SECTION 40
of the bill (page 53, between lines 14 and 15), insert a new
Subsection (h) to read as follows:
      (h) A retail electric provider, power generation company,
aggregator, or other entity that provides retail electric service
may not disconnect service to a residential customer during an
extreme weather emergency or on a weekend day.  The entity
providing service shall defer payment of bills that are due during
an extreme weather emergency until after the emergency is over and
shall work with customers to establish a pay schedule for deferred
bills.  For purposes of this subsection, "extreme weather
emergency" means a period of at least two weeks in which the
average temperatures are more than 90 degrees or less than 32
degrees.