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Amend CSSB 3 (senate committee printing) as follows:
(1) In SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Section 411.301, Government Code (page 1, line 31), strike "and activation" and insert ", activation, and termination".
(2) In SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Section 411.305, Government Code (page 2, lines 3-4), strike "power supply in this state or a region of this state may be inadequate to meet demand" and insert "criteria adopted under Section 411.301(b) for the activation of the alert has been met".
(3) In SECTION 1 of the bill, strike added Section 411.307, Government Code (page 2, lines 16-20), and substitute the following:
Sec. 411.307. TERMINATION OF POWER OUTAGE ALERT. The director shall terminate any activation of the power outage alert as soon as practicable after the Public Utility Commission of Texas or the Electric Reliability Council of Texas notifies the department that the criteria adopted under Section 411.301(b) for the termination of the alert has been met.
(4) In SECTION 3 of the bill, in added Section 418.303(a)(10), Government Code (page 3, lines 17-18), strike "such as the non-dispatchable sources of energy, coal, or nuclear sectors,".
(5) In SECTION 4 of the bill, in added Section 86.044(a)(1), Natural Resources Code (page 3, lines 66-67), strike "to end consumers".
(6) In SECTION 4 of the bill, in added Section 86.044(e), Natural Resources Code (page 4, line 20), strike "the violation" and substitute "a violation that is not remedied in a reasonable amount of time".
(7) In SECTION 7 of the bill, strike added Section 17.002(3-a), Utilities Code (page 4, lines 56-59), and substitute the following:
(3-a) "Critical care residential customer" has the meaning assigned by commission rules.
(8) In SECTION 8 of the bill, in added Section 17.003(d-1), Utilities Code (page 4), strike lines 64-67 and substitute "31.002, shall provide to the retail electric provider and the retail electric provider shall periodically provide to the retail electric provider's retail customers together with bills sent to the customers:".
(9) In SECTION 8 of the bill, in added Section 17.003(e)(3), Utilities Code (page 5, line 23), strike "would" and substitute "may".
(10) In SECTION 12 of the bill, in added Section 35.0021(a), Utilities Code (page 6, line 32), strike "qualifying facility,".
(11) In SECTION 12 of the bill, in added Section 35.0021(c)(3), Utilities Code (page 6, lines 48-49), strike "that is not remedied in a reasonable period of time".
(12) In SECTION 12 of the bill, in added Section 35.0021(f), Utilities Code (page 6), strike lines 68-69 and substitute "during any season and for any period of time".
(13) In SECTION 12 of the bill, in added Section 35.0021(g), Utilities Code (page 7, lines 3-4), strike "in the manner provided by Chapter 15" and substitute "and does not remedy that violation within a reasonable period of time".
(14) In SECTION 14 of the bill, in added Section 38.074(b), Utilities Code (page 7, lines 39-40), strike "in the manner provided by Chapter 15" and substitute "and does not remedy that violation within a reasonable period of time".
(15) In SECTION 14 of the bill, strike added Section 38.075(b), Utilities Code (page 7, lines 48-53), and substitute:
(b) The system must provide for allocation of the load shedding obligation to each electric cooperative, municipally owned utility, and transmission and distribution utility in different seasons based on historical seasonal peak demand in the service territory of the electric cooperative, municipally owned utility, or transmission and distribution utility.
(16) In SECTION 14 of the bill, in added Section 38.075(d)(1), Utilities Code (page 8, line 2), strike "load shedding" and substitute "voluntary load reduction".
(17) In SECTION 14 of the bill, in added Section 38.075(d)(2), Utilities Code (page 8, line 5), strike "shedding" and substitute "reduction".
(18) In SECTION 14 of the bill, in added Section 38.076(a), Utilities Code (page 8, line 12), between "conduct" and "load" insert "simulated or tabletop".
(19) In SECTION 14 of the bill, in added Section 38.076(b), Utilities Code (page 8, line 16), immediately before each instance of "exercise" insert "simulated or tabletop".
(20) In SECTION 17 of the bill, in added Section 39.9165(a)(1), Utilities Code (page 8, line 54), strike "is" and substitute "may be".
(21) In SECTION 17 of the bill, in added Section 39.9165(a)(2), Utilities Code (page 8, line 55), strike "or equal to".
(22) In SECTION 19 of the bill, in added Section 121.2015(f), Utilities Code (page 9, line 46), between "Subsection (a)(3)" and "in" insert "if the violation is not remedied in a reasonable period of time".
(23) In SECTION 29 of the bill (page 12, line 47), between "shall" and "review" insert "annually".