Amend CSHB 1926 (senate committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION____. Section 37.056, Utilities Code, is amended by adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read as follows:
(e) After January 1, 2015, notwithstanding Sections 39.904(g) and (h), the commission, after consultation with the appropriate independent organization, shall plan for all transmission related to the incorporation of renewable energy, including projects constructed by a municipally owned utility or municipal power agency that are subject to the certificate requirements of subsections 37.051 (g) and (h), in a manner consistent with the planning process for other types of generation resources, except as otherwise provided by Subsection (f).
(f) The commission shall consider in the planning process for transmission related to the incorporation of renewable energy all the factors provided in this section, except that the commission is not required to consider the factors provided by subsections(c)(1) and (2) for a facility that serves a competitive renewable energy zone established by the commission before January 1, 2015 if the addition of the facility:
(1) will cost not more than $130 million; and
(2) involves adding a second circuit to existing single circuit lines and associated electrical equipment identified as necessary by the independent organization certified for ERCOT in a system planning report issued before May 1, 2014.