73R6262 JSA-D
          By A. Smith of Harris                                 H.B. No. 1766
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    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.