Amend CSHB 1 as follows:                                                     
	(1) In Article VIII, insert the following 
appropriately-numbered Rider to the appropriation for the Public 
Utility Commission to read as follows and renumbering subsequent 
Riders accordingly:
	"____. COMMISSION STUDY. Out of funds appropriated to the 
commission, the commission is directed to develop a proposed 
comprehensive electric energy plan that details this state's demand 
for electric generation capacity for the next 25 years, the 
infrastructure and technology for meeting that demand, and 
recommendations for meeting that demand. In developing the proposed 
plan, the commission shall consider and discuss policies and 
strategies to ensure that fuel resources available to the state are 
used in a balanced and efficient manner while taking into 
consideration the reliability, economic viability, and 
environmental impact of fuels and technologies including, but not 
limited to, the following:
		(1) Strategies to protect and preserve the environment 
of the state while allowing for access to safe, economical, and 
reliable sources of energy;
		(2) Strategies to ensure that customers of this state 
have access to reliable energy;
		(3) Transmission, congestion, and transportation 
constraints and cost, and strategies to alleviate or prevent those 
constraints for sources of energy used to generate electricity;
		(4) Electricity generation capacity, reserve margins, 
market impact, environmental impact of sources of electricity 
generation, and strategies to ensure continued investment in clean 
fuels and clean generation technology;
		(5) Demand side management and response programs 
including but not limited to and cost-effective strategies for 
measuring and utilizing energy conservation, interruptible loads, 
loads acting as resources, the use of combined heat and power, and 
energy efficiency;
		(6) Policies to ensure that fuel resources available to 
the state achieve reliable supply and are used in a balanced, 
efficient, and environmentally conscious manner.
	The Commission shall provide a process for coordinating 
information with other state agencies and obtaining public input 
into developing the plan, and provide a draft of the report for 
public comment by September 1, 2008, and submit a final report, 
taking into account public input, to the Governor, Lt. Governor and 
Speaker of the House by January 15th, 2009."