By:  Brown                                             S.B. No. 883
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the representative of industrial energy consumers on
    1-2  the Texas Energy Coordination Council.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 3.01, Article 4413(47f), Vernon's Texas
    1-5  Civil Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 3.01.  Composition.  (a)  The Texas Energy Coordination
    1-7  Council is composed of the following ex officio members:
    1-8              (1)  a representative from Texas Tech University to be
    1-9  designated by the president of the university;
   1-10              (2)  the director of the Energy System Laboratory of
   1-11  Texas A&M University;
   1-12              (3)  the director of the Center for Energy Studies at
   1-13  The University of Texas at Austin;
   1-14              <(4)  a representative of industrial energy consumers;>
   1-15              (4) <(5)>  the director of the Energy Laboratory of the
   1-16  University of Houston; and
   1-17              (5) <(6)>  the director of the Alternative Energy
   1-18  Institute of West Texas State University.
   1-19        (b)  The governor shall appoint the following members to
   1-20  serve on the council:
   1-21              (1)  a representative of the natural gas industry;
   1-22              (2)  a representative of the oil industry;
   1-23              (3)  a representative of the alternative fuels
    2-1  industry;
    2-2              (4)  a representative of the Texas Sustainable Energy
    2-3  Development Council or renewable energy industry;
    2-4              (5)  a representative of the electric utility industry;
    2-5              (6)  a representative of industrial energy consumers;
    2-6  and
    2-7              (7) <(6)>  a representative of an energy consumer
    2-8  organization or environmental organization.
    2-9        (c)  If a postsecondary educational institution eliminates
   2-10  the entity whose director serves on the council, the institution
   2-11  shall name a representative to serve on the council.  The
   2-12  representative must be an individual at the institution with
   2-13  responsibilities related to the mission of the council and must
   2-14  hold a position of a level similar to the level of the position of
   2-15  director of the eliminated entity.
   2-16        SECTION 2.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
   2-17  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-22  passage, and it is so enacted.