H.B. No. 1766
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the composition of the governing board of the Texas
1-3 Partnership for Economic Development.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 481.353, Government Code, is amended by
1-6 amending Subsections (a), (b), and (d) and adding Subsection (f) to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 (a) The partnership is governed by a board of 20 <15>
1-9 members composed of:
1-10 (1) seven members appointed by the governor, of which
1-11 three members must represent private industry, which may not be the
1-12 same industry, two members must represent public or higher
1-13 education, and two members must represent the public;
1-14 (2) four members appointed by the speaker of the house
1-15 of representatives, of which three members must represent private
1-16 industry, which may not be the same industry, and one member must
1-17 represent public or higher education; <and>
1-18 (3) four members appointed by the lieutenant governor,
1-19 of which three members must represent private industry, which may
1-20 not be the same industry, and one member must represent public or
1-21 higher education;
1-22 (4) three members appointed by the chairman of the
1-23 board;
1-24 (5) the commissioner of education, who serves as a
2-1 nonvoting member; and
2-2 (6) the commissioner of higher education, who serves
2-3 as a nonvoting member.
2-4 (b) Members of the partnership appointed under Subsections
2-5 (a)(1), (2), and (3) serve staggered two-year terms with the terms
2-6 of eight members expiring February 1 of each odd-numbered year and
2-7 the terms of seven members expiring February 1 of each
2-8 even-numbered year. Each member appointed under Subsection (a)(4)
2-9 serves a term that expires on the earlier of:
2-10 (1) the date the chairman that appointed the member
2-11 ceases to be the chairman; or
2-12 (2) the second anniversary of the date the person was
2-13 appointed.
2-14 (d) Before the partnership's first meeting after the regular
2-15 appointment of a member, the governor shall select a chairman from
2-16 the partnership's private sector members appointed under
2-17 Subsections (a)(1), (2), and (3).
2-18 (f) The nonvoting members of the partnership board do not
2-19 count in determining what constitutes a quorum of the board
2-20 membership.
2-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-26 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-27 passage, and it is so enacted.