By:  Armbrister                                       S.B. No. 1116
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the responsibility for and allocation of renewable
 1-3     energy resources by a generation and transmission electric
 1-4     cooperative.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 39.904, Utilities Code, is amended by
 1-7     adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
 1-8           (g)  At the election of its board of directors, a generation
 1-9     and transmission cooperative is responsible for the cumulative
1-10     total of its cooperative members' renewable energy requirements and
1-11     its affiliated cooperative members' renewable energy requirements.
1-12     The commission may not require a cooperative that elects under this
1-13     subsection to allocate the cooperative's renewable resources
1-14     between its members or its affiliated members when those resources
1-15     are nominated.  This subsection does not affect the cumulative
1-16     total of renewable energy resources that are the responsibility of
1-17     a generation and transmission cooperative, its cooperative members,
1-18     or its affiliated cooperative members in meeting their share of the
1-19     state's goals for renewable energy resources.
1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-21     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-22     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-23     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-24     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.