Amend SB 1699 on third reading in the SECTION of the bill adding Section 39.919, Utilities Code, as follows:
(1) Strike Section 39.919(b)(9) and substitute the following:
(9) allows a retail electric provider that offers a demand response program under this section to obtain funding for the demand response program through an energy efficiency incentive program established under Section 39.905 if the program complies with commission requirements related to the evaluation, measurement, and verification of demand response programs adopted under Section 39.905.
(2) Strike Section 39.919(d) and substitute the following:
(d) A transmission and distribution utility required to provide an energy efficiency incentive program under Section 39.905 may use up to 10 percent of the budgeted spending for demand response programs on the programs described by Subsection (b)(9).