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Amend SB 593 by amending current Section 2 and inserting 
Section 3 as follows, and renumbering the remaining sections of the 
bill accordingly:
	SECTION 2. Section 1 of tThis Act expires September 1, 2007.
	SECTION 3.  Section 39.107, Utilities Code, is amended by 
amending Subsections (a) and (b) and by adding Subsection (h) to 
read as follows:
	(a)  On introduction of customer choice in a service area, 
metering services for the area shall continue to be provided by the 
transmission and distribution utility affiliate of the electric 
utility that was serving the area before the introduction of 
customer choice. Metering services provided to commercial and 
industrial customers that are required by the independent system 
operator to have an interval data recorder meter may [shall] be 
provided on a competitive basis [beginning on January 1, 2004].
	(b)  Metering services provided to residential customers and 
to nonresidential customers other than those required by the 
independent system operator to have an interval data recorder meter 
shall continue to be provided by the transmission and distribution 
utility affiliate of the electric utility that was serving the area 
before the introduction of customer choice [until the later of 
September 1, 2005, or the date on which at least 40 percent of those 
residential customers are taking service from unaffiliated retail 
electric providers]. Retail electric providers serving residential 
and nonresidential customers other than those required by the 
independent system operator to have an interval data recorder meter 
may request that the transmission and distribution utility provide 
specialized meters, meter features, or add-on accessories so long 
as they are technically feasible and generally available in the 
market and provided that the retail electric provider pays the 
differential cost of such a meter or accessory. Metering and 
billing services provided to residential customers shall be 
governed by the customers safeguards adopted by the commission 
under Section 39.10. All meter data, including all data generated, 
provided, or otherwise made available, by advanced meters and meter 
information networks, shall belong to a customer, including data 
used to calculate charges for service, historical load data, and 
any other proprietary customer information. A customer may 
authorize its data to be provided to one or more retail electric 
providers under rules and charges established by the commission.
	(h)  The commission shall establish a nonbypassable surcharge 
for an electric utility or transmission and distribution utility to 
use to recover reasonable and necessary costs incurred in deploying 
advanced metering and meter information networks to residential 
customers and nonresidential customers other than those required by 
the independent system operator to have an interval data recorder 
meter. The commission shall ensure that the nonbypassable surcharge 
reflects a deployment of advanced meters that is no more than 
one-third of the utility's total meters over each calendar year, 
and shall ensure that the nonbypassable surcharge does not result 
in the utility recovering more than its actual, fully allocated 
meter and meter information network costs. The expenses must be 
allocated to the customer classes receiving the services, based on 
the electric utility's most recently approved tariffs.