Amend CSHB 3474 (senate committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 1502.056, Government Code, is amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
(a-1) For a municipality in a county that contains an international border and borders the Gulf of Mexico, the first lien against the revenue of a municipally owned utility system that secures the payment of public securities issued or obligations incurred under this chapter also applies to funding, as a necessary operations expense, for a bill payment assistance program for the utility system's customers who:
(1) have been determined by the municipality to be low-income customers;
(2) are military veterans who have significantly decreased abilities to regulate their bodies' core temperatures because of severe burns received in combat; or
(3) are elderly and low-income customers as determined by the municipality.