Amend CSHB 1500 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____.  Section 38.074, Utilities Code, is amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c)  The rules must authorize the independent organization certified under Section 39.151 for the ERCOT power region to require that a gas utility, as defined by Section 121.001, that owns or controls a facility that is designated as critical under Section 81.073, Natural Resources Code, or that provides physical gas delivery to an electric cooperative, municipally owned utility, or power generation company provide to the independent organization information in real time about the utility's gas supply, including through telemetry or the use of a hotline.