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Amend CSSB 743 as follows:
(1) In the introductory language to Section 1 of the bill (House Committee printing, page 1, line 8), strike "and (n)" and
substitute "(n), (o), and (p)".
(2) In Section 1 of the bill, following proposed Subsection
(n), Section 39.151, Utilities Code (House Committee printing, page
6, between lines 11 and 12), insert:
(o) An independent organization certified under this
section is subject to Chapter 552, Government Code, as if it were a
governmental body under that chapter.
(p) Information is excepted from the requirements of
Section 552.021, Government Code, if the information is collected,
assembled, or maintained by or for the independent organization:
(1) as part of the duty of the organization to support
wholesale and retail electric markets and the information is
competitively sensitive information of a third party that provides
electric service within the transmission system managed by the
independent organization that if disclosed, would give advantage to
competitors or prospective competitors of the third party;
(2) for the purpose of maintaining the reliability of
an electric transmission system that if disclosed, could provide
information about security measures of the independent
organization or information about the transmission system or a
related control or communication system that could aid acts of
terrorism or other criminal activity against the independent
organization or the electric transmission system; or
(3) in relation to the development or construction of
a system used by the independent organization to maintain the
security and reliability of the transmission grid or in support of
market systems or processes of the independent organization.