Amend CSHB 11 (house committee report) on page 3, between lines 9 and 10, by inserting the following appropriately lettered subsection:
(____) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subtitle, the commission shall allow a transmission and distribution utility to design and operate a load management program for non-residential customers to be used during an extreme weather emergency or times of constraint in its service territory, in addition to and separate from any load management program operated as part of its portfolio of energy efficiency programs. A transmission and distribution utility implementing a load management program under this subsection shall be permitted to recover the reasonable and necessary costs of the load management program under Chapter 36. A load management program operated under this subsection is not considered a competitive service.