Floor Packet Page No. 73 Amend CSSB 7 by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering SECTIONS appropriately: SECTION ____. Subchapter C, Chapter 161, Utilities Code, is amended by adding Section 161.126 to read as follows: Sec. 161.126. ADDITIONAL PURPOSES AND POWERS OF BORDER ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE. (a) In addition to the other powers provided by this subchapter, an electric cooperative that serves retail customers in a county that is contiguous to an international border may provide, directly or through an affiliate, the following services within any portion of the electric cooperative's retail electric service area or areas contiguous to its retail electric service area: (1) rural community utility and utility-related services, including: (A) water and sewer services, subject to compliance with the requirements of a public utility under Chapter 13, Water Code; (B) Internet services; and (C) telephone answering services and other communications services, excluding telecommunications services governed by Subtitle C, Title 2; (2) management or operating services to or for another electric cooperative or another entity engaged in purposes authorized by this subchapter; and (3) economic and industrial development promotion through participation as a borrower or lender under a federal program. (b) This section does not authorize an electric cooperative to provide retail electric service to an area other than an area the cooperative is authorized to serve under a certificate issued under Chapter 37. (c) The electric cooperative has all powers, including the power to borrow money, necessary or appurtenant to the purposes and powers provided by Subsection (a). (d) The additional purposes and powers provided under this section for an electric cooperative described by Subsection (a) may not be construed to limit the general purposes and powers granted to an electric cooperative under Section 161.121.