Amend CSHB 2388 on pages 1 and 2 by striking SECTION 1 of the 
bill and substituting the following:
	SECTION 1.  Section 13.503, Water Code, is amended by 
amending Subsections (a) and (b) and adding Subsection (e) to read 
as follows:
	(a)  The commission shall encourage submetering of 
individual rental or dwelling units by master meter operators or 
building owners 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, 
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, except as provided by this 
section, an apartment house owner, manufactured home rental 
community 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 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. The rules shall allow an owner or 
manager to charge a tenant a fee for late payment of a submetered 
water bill if the amount of the fee does not exceed five percent of 
the bill paid late. 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.
	(e)  The commission may authorize a building owner to use 
submetering equipment that relies on integrated radio based meter 
reading systems and remote registration in a building plumbing 
system using submeters that comply with nationally recognized 
plumbing standards and are as accurate as utility water meters in 
single application conditions.