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Amend CSHB 1779 by adding a new section to the bill, numbered
appropriately, to read as follows and renumbering subsequent
sections accordingly:
SECTION ____. Before implementing a new wholesale
transmission and distribution market design, the Public Utility
Commission of Texas shall provide to the Senate Committee on
Business and Commerce and the House Committee on Regulated
Industries a report that contains:
(1) an executive summary and detailed description of
the changes in the wholesale transmission and distribution market
that the commission has ordered, including the effect the new
market design is anticipated to have on local congestion costs;
(2) a list of entities, associations, and groups that
have submitted comments to the commission on the new market design,
classified by whether the comments indicated support for or
opposition to the new market design;
(3) a comparison of the new market design to any
similar market design adopted in any other state;
(4) a timeline for the implementation of the new market
design, including estimated costs of implementation;
(5) the estimated increases in wholesale and retail
electricity prices that will be caused in each county in this state
by the new market design, projected over the first five years after
the date the new design will be implemented; and
(6) the names, business addresses, and telephone
numbers of the members of the Texas Nodal Team and of any other
quasi-official working group that recommends to the commission the
adoption of the new market design.