Amend SB 567 on third reading as follows:

(1)  Strike SECTION 30 (house committee printing), amending Section 13.144, Water Code, and substitute the following appropriately numbered SECTION:

SECTION ____.  Section 13.144, Water Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 13.144.  NOTICE OF WHOLESALE WATER SUPPLY CONTRACT. A district or authority created under Section 52, Article III, or Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, a retail public utility, a wholesale water service, or other person providing a retail public utility with a wholesale water supply shall provide the utility commission and the commission with a certified copy of any wholesale water supply contract with a retail public utility within 30 days after the date of the execution of the contract. The submission must include the amount of water being supplied, term of the contract, consideration being given for the water, purpose of use, location of use, source of supply, point of delivery, limitations on the reuse of water, a disclosure of any affiliated interest between the parties to the contract, and any other condition or agreement relating to the contract.

(2)  Insert the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS and renumber subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 13.139(b), Water Code, is amended to read as follows:

(b)  The governing body of a municipality, as the regulatory authority for public utilities operating within its corporate limits, and the utility commission or the commission as the regulatory authority for public utilities operating outside the corporate limits of any municipality, after reasonable notice and hearing on its own motion, may:

(1)  ascertain and fix just and reasonable standards, classifications, regulations, service rules, minimum service standards or practices to be observed and followed with respect to the service to be furnished;

(2)  ascertain and fix adequate and reasonable standards for the measurement of the quantity, quality, pressure, or other condition pertaining to the supply of the service;

(3)  prescribe reasonable regulations for the examination and testing of the service and for the measurement of service; and

(4)  establish or approve reasonable rules, regulations, specifications, and standards to secure the accuracy of all meters, instruments, and equipment used for the measurement of any utility service.

SECTION ____.  Section 13.1395, Water Code, is amended by adding Subsection (m) to read as follows: