Amend HB 1600 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to ARTICLE 1 of the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the article appropriately:
SECTION 1.____. Section 39.107, Utilities Code, is amended by adding Subsection (k) to read as follows:
(k) The commission by rule shall prohibit an electric utility or transmission and distribution utility from selling, sharing, or disclosing information generated, provided, or otherwise collected from an advanced metering system or meter information network, including information used to calculate charges for service, historical load data, and any other customer information. The commission shall allow an electric utility or transmission and distribution utility to share information with an affiliated corporation if the information is to be used only for the purpose of providing electric utility service to the customer.
SECTION 1.____. The Public Utility Commission of Texas shall adopt rules necessary to implement Section 39.107(k), Utilities Code, as added by this article, as soon as practicable after the effective date of this Act.