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.