By Patterson S.B. No. 75
74R2114 MI-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the membership of the Coastal Coordination Council.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 33.203(2), Natural Resources Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (2) "Council" means the Coastal Coordination Council,
1-7 which shall consist of the commissioner, the attorney general, the
1-8 chair of the Parks and Wildlife Commission, the chair of the Texas
1-9 Natural Resource Conservation <Water> Commission, a member of the
1-10 Railroad Commission of Texas, a member of the Texas Transportation
1-11 Commission, the commissioner of agriculture, and one city or county
1-12 elected official and one resident from the coastal area appointed
1-13 by the governor for two-year terms.
1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.