Amend CSSB 712 as follows: (1) On page 2, line 23, add new SECTION 2 and renumber accordingly: SECTION 2. Amend section 35.004 of the Utilities Code by adding a new Subsection (f) to read as follows: (f) In order to properly reflect the infrastructure costs and benefits of energy efficiency and other technologies and resources that do not require transmission infrastructure, the commission shall develop and implement rules to ensure that a power generation company that interconnects with the transmission facilities of an electric utility, municipally owned utility, or electric cooperative in ERCOT bears an appropriate share of the costs of transmission additions and upgrades made necessary by the power generation company's interconnection to and use of the transmission system and transmission additions and upgrades associated with a competitive renewable energy zone. The rules shall be competitively neutral and consistent with the purposes of this subtitle.