By Holzheauser H.B. No. 1968
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the representative of industrial energy consumers on
1-3 the Texas Energy Coordination Council.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 3.01, Article 4413(47f), Vernon's Texas
1-6 Civil Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 3.01. Composition. (a) The Texas Energy Coordination
1-8 Council is composed of the following ex officio members:
1-9 (1) a representative from Texas Tech University to be
1-10 designated by the president of the university;
1-11 (2) the director of the Energy System Laboratory of
1-12 Texas A&M University;
1-13 (3) the director of the Center for Energy Studies at
1-14 The University of Texas at Austin;
1-15 (4) <a representative of industrial energy consumers;>
1-16 <(5)> the director of the Energy Laboratory of the
1-17 University of Houston; and
1-18 (5) <(6)> the director of the Alternative Energy
1-19 Institute of West Texas State University.
1-20 (b) The governor shall appoint the following members to
1-21 serve on the council:
1-22 (1) a representative of the natural gas industry;
1-23 (2) a representative of the oil industry;
2-1 (3) a representative of the alternative fuels
2-2 industry;
2-3 (4) a representative of the Texas Sustainable Energy
2-4 Development Council or renewable energy industry;
2-5 (5) a representative of the electric utility industry;
2-6 (6) a representative of industrial energy consumers;
2-7 and
2-8 (7) <(6)> a representative of an energy consumer
2-9 organization or environmental organization.
2-10 (c) If a postsecondary educational institution eliminates
2-11 the entity whose director serves on the council, the institution
2-12 shall name a representative to serve on the council. The
2-13 representative must be an individual at the institution with
2-14 responsibilities related to the mission of the council and must
2-15 hold a position of a level similar to the level of the position of
2-16 director of the eliminated entity.
2-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-23 passage, and it is so enacted.