Enrolled Bill Summary

            House Bill 3492 abolishes the Texas Committee on Energy Policy and modifies the responsibilities, duties, and powers of the Texas Energy Coordination Council. The act designates the council as a state agency and sets out its duties, including advising and assisting the legislature in developing plans, programs, cost benefit analyses, financial models, and legislation regarding energy policy, determining the state's long-range energy needs, and submitting a biennial report to the governor and legislature detailing actions necessary to promote an effective and efficient energy sector. The council is also authorized to enter into memoranda of understanding with certain entities to carry out the duties of this act and to adopt rules for the administration of this act. Finally, the act provides that the council is subject to the Texas Sunset Act and will be abolished on September 1, 2001, unless continued by the legislature.