1-1 By: Holzheauser (Senate Sponsor - Brown) H.B. No. 1968
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 1995;
1-3 April 4, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
1-4 Resources; May 3, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 3, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the representative of industrial energy consumers on
1-9 the Texas Energy Coordination Council.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 3.01, Article 4413(47f), Vernon's Texas
1-12 Civil Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 3.01. Composition. (a) The Texas Energy Coordination
1-14 Council is composed of the following ex officio members:
1-15 (1) a representative from Texas Tech University to be
1-16 designated by the president of the university;
1-17 (2) the director of the Energy System Laboratory of
1-18 Texas A&M University;
1-19 (3) the director of the Center for Energy Studies at
1-20 The University of Texas at Austin;
1-21 (4) <a representative of industrial energy consumers;>
1-22 <(5)> the director of the Energy Laboratory of the
1-23 University of Houston; and
1-24 (5) <(6)> the director of the Alternative Energy
1-25 Institute of West Texas State University.
1-26 (b) The governor shall appoint the following members to
1-27 serve on the council:
1-28 (1) a representative of the natural gas industry;
1-29 (2) a representative of the oil industry;
1-30 (3) a representative of the alternative fuels
1-31 industry;
1-32 (4) a representative of the Texas Sustainable Energy
1-33 Development Council or renewable energy industry;
1-34 (5) a representative of the electric utility industry;
1-35 (6) a representative of industrial energy consumers;
1-36 and
1-37 (7) <(6)> a representative of an energy consumer
1-38 organization or environmental organization.
1-39 (c) If a postsecondary educational institution eliminates
1-40 the entity whose director serves on the council, the institution
1-41 shall name a representative to serve on the council. The
1-42 representative must be an individual at the institution with
1-43 responsibilities related to the mission of the council and must
1-44 hold a position of a level similar to the level of the position of
1-45 director of the eliminated entity.
1-46 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-47 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-48 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-49 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-50 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-51 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-52 passage, and it is so enacted.
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