Amend SECTION 1 of SB 950 by striking on page 3 line 3
through page 4 line 5, Sec. 13.503, and replacing it with the
following:
Sec. 13.503. Submetering Rules
(a) The commission shall encourage submetering of individual
rental or dwelling units by master meter operators to enhance the
conservation of water resources.
(b) Notwithstanding any other law, the commission shall
adopt rules and standards under which an owner, operator, or
manager of an apartment house, manufactured home rental community
<mobile home park>, or multiple use facility that is not individually
metered for water for each rental or dwelling unit may install
submetering equipment for each individual rental or dwelling unit
for the purpose of fairly allocating the cost of each individual
rental or dwelling unit's water consumption, including wastewater
charges based on water consumption. In addition to other
appropriate safeguards for the tenant, the rules shall require that
an apartment house owner, manufactured home rental community <mobile
home park> owner, multiple use facility owner, or condominium
manager may not impose on the tenant any extra charges, over and
above the cost per gallon and any other applicable taxes and
surcharges that are <is> charged by the retail public utility to the
owner or manager, and that the rental unit or apartment house owner
or manager shall maintain adequate records regarding submetering
and make the records available for inspection by the tenant during
reasonable business hours. All submetering equipment is subject to
the rules and standards established by the commission for accuracy,
testing, and record keeping of meters installed by utilities and to
the meter-testing requirements of Section 13.140 of this code.
(c) In addition to the charges permitted under subsection
(b), the rules shall authorize a manufactured home community owner
or manager to impose a service charge of not more than nine percent
of the costs related to submetering allocated to each submetered
rental or dwelling unit.