1-1 By: A. Smith of Harris (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 1766
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1993;
1-3 May 12, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Economic
1-4 Development; May 21, 1993, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 21, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Parker x
1-9 Lucio x
1-10 Ellis x
1-11 Haley x
1-12 Harris of Dallas x
1-13 Harris of Tarrant x
1-14 Leedom x
1-15 Madla x
1-16 Rosson x
1-17 Shapiro x
1-18 Wentworth x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to the composition of the governing board of the Texas
1-22 Partnership for Economic Development.
1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-24 SECTION 1. Section 481.353, Government Code, is amended by
1-25 amending Subsections (a), (b), and (d) and adding Subsection (f) to
1-26 read as follows:
1-27 (a) The partnership is governed by a board of 20 <15>
1-28 members composed of:
1-29 (1) seven members appointed by the governor, of which
1-30 three members must represent private industry, which may not be the
1-31 same industry, two members must represent public or higher
1-32 education, and two members must represent the public;
1-33 (2) four members appointed by the speaker of the house
1-34 of representatives, of which three members must represent private
1-35 industry, which may not be the same industry, and one member must
1-36 represent public or higher education; <and>
1-37 (3) four members appointed by the lieutenant governor,
1-38 of which three members must represent private industry, which may
1-39 not be the same industry, and one member must represent public or
1-40 higher education;
1-41 (4) three members appointed by the chairman of the
1-42 board;
1-43 (5) the commissioner of education, who serves as a
1-44 nonvoting member; and
1-45 (6) the commissioner of higher education, who serves
1-46 as a nonvoting member.
1-47 (b) Members of the partnership appointed under Subsections
1-48 (a)(1), (2), and (3) serve staggered two-year terms with the terms
1-49 of eight members expiring February 1 of each odd-numbered year and
1-50 the terms of seven members expiring February 1 of each
1-51 even-numbered year. Each member appointed under Subsection (a)(4)
1-52 serves a term that expires on the earlier of:
1-53 (1) the date the chairman that appointed the member
1-54 ceases to be the chairman; or
1-55 (2) the second anniversary of the date the person was
1-56 appointed.
1-57 (d) Before the partnership's first meeting after the regular
1-58 appointment of a member, the governor shall select a chairman from
1-59 the partnership's private sector members appointed under
1-60 Subsections (a)(1), (2), and (3).
1-61 (f) The nonvoting members of the partnership board do not
1-62 count in determining what constitutes a quorum of the board
1-63 membership.
1-64 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-65 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-66 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-67 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-68 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.
2-3 * * * * *
2-4 Austin,
2-5 Texas
2-6 May 21, 1993
2-7 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-8 President of the Senate
2-9 Sir:
2-10 We, your Committee on Economic Development to which was referred
2-11 H.B. No. 1766, have had the same under consideration, and I am
2-12 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
2-13 that it do pass and be printed.
2-14 Parker,
2-15 Chairman
2-16 * * * * *
2-17 WITNESSES
2-18 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 1766.