Amend CSHB 145 (senate committee report) in SECTION 2 of the bill as follows:
(1) Immediately following added Section 38.081(a), Utilities Code (page 3, between lines 6 and 7), insert the following appropriately lettered subsection and reletter subsequent subsections and cross-references to those subsections accordingly:
( ) Subject to any applicable tariff provision, an electric utility, municipally owned utility, or electric cooperative that submits, obtains commission approval for, and implements a wildfire mitigation plan under Section 38.080 is not liable for damages resulting from a wildfire ignited or propagated by the utility's or cooperative's facility unless the utility or cooperative intentionally, recklessly, or with negligence caused the damage.
(2) In added Section 38.081(b), Utilities Code (page 3, line 7), strike "Subsection (a) does" and substitute "Subsections (a) and (b) do".