By: Schwertner S.R. No. 562
 
 
SENATE RESOLUTION
         BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 87th
  Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, That Senate Rule 12.03 be
  suspended in part as provided by Senate Rule 12.08 to enable the
  conference committee appointed to resolve the differences on
  Senate Bill 3 (preparing for, preventing, and responding to
  weather emergencies and power outages; increasing the amount of
  administrative and civil penalties) to consider and take action
  on the following matter:
         (1)  Senate Rule 12.03(2) is suspended to permit the
  committee to omit text not in disagreement by omitting proposed
  Sections 39.110(a) and (b), Utilities Code. The omitted text
  prohibited the offering of certain wholesale indexed electric
  products to residential or small commercial customers. The
  omitted text reads:
         Sec. 39.110.  WHOLESALE INDEXED PRODUCTS PROHIBITED. (a)
  In this section, "wholesale indexed product" means a retail
  electric product in which the price a customer pays for
  electricity includes a direct pass-through of real-time
  settlement point prices determined by the independent
  organization certified under Section 39.151 for the ERCOT power
  region.
         (b)  A retail electric provider may not offer a wholesale
  indexed product to a residential or small commercial customer.
         Sec. 39.110.  WHOLESALE INDEXED PRODUCTS. (a) In this
  section, "wholesale indexed product" means a retail electric
  product in which the price a customer pays for electricity
  includes a direct pass-through of real-time settlement point
  prices determined by the independent organization certified
  under Section 39.151 for the ERCOT power region.
         (b)  Except as provided by Subsection (c), an aggregator,
  a broker, or a retail electric provider may not offer a wholesale
  indexed product to a residential or small commercial customer.
         Explanation: The omission of the text is necessary to
  remove the prohibition of the offering of certain wholesale
  indexed electric products to residential or small commercial
  customers.
         (2)  Senate Rule 12.03(4) is suspended to permit the
  committee to add text on a matter not included in either the house
  or senate version of the bill by adding proposed SECTION 37 of the
  bill:
         SECTION 37.  The Texas Electricity Supply Chain Security
  and Mapping Committee shall produce the map required under
  Section 38.203, Utilities Code, as added by this Act, not later
  than September 1, 2022.
         Explanation: The addition of the text is necessary to
  require the Texas Electricity Supply Chain Security and Mapping
  Committee to produce the map required under added Section 38.203,
  Utilities Code, not later than September 1, 2022.
 
 
    _______________________________ 
        President of the Senate
     
         I hereby certify that the
    above Resolution was adopted by
    the Senate on May 30, 2021, by
    the following vote:  Yeas 31,
  Nays 0.
   
   
    _______________________________ 
        Secretary of the Senate