H.B. No. 1968
    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.