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Amend the P. King amendment to CSSB 482 by adding the
following:
(1) On page 8, after line 26, insert the following and
renumber subsequent sections.
SECTION 6. Subchapter E, Chapter 39, Utilities Code, is
amended by adding Section 39.2025 to read as follows:
Sec. 39.2025. MARKET REVIEW BASED ON PRICE OF ELECTRICITY.
(a) The commission shall review, as described in Subsection (b),
the price of the electric service plan under which residential
customers who took service under a price to beat tariff on December
31, 2006, who have not subsequently chosen an alternate retail
electric service plan if the price charged by a retail electric
provider to such residential customers averages more than one and
one-half cents per kilowatt hour higher for more than a six month
period than the average of the prices actually charged on
customers' bills by other retailers for comparable electric service
plans in the relevant transmission and distribution utility service
territory.
(b) If the commission determines that the retail electric
provider's price charged to such customers is not reasonable based
on its review, the commission shall reduce the retail electric
provider's residential price charged to such customers, but not to
less than one cent per kilowatt hour higher than the six month
average of the prices charged by other retailers for comparable
electric service plans in the relevant transmission and
distribution utility service territory.
(d) The commission shall adopt rules to implement this
Section and to ensure that the intent of this Section is carried
out.
(e) This section shall not apply in the event of a natural
disaster or other event of force majeure which causes interruption
of the normal course of supply of fuel used in the generation of
electricity within the state.
(f) This section expires on January 1, 2009.