1-1 By: Armbrister S.B. No. 1116 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2001; March 7, 2001, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce; 1-4 April 24, 2001, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 24, 2001, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1116 By: Fraser 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the responsibility for and allocation of renewable 1-11 energy resources by a generation and transmission electric 1-12 cooperative. 1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-14 SECTION 1. Section 39.904, Utilities Code, is amended by 1-15 adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: 1-16 (g) At the election of its board of directors, a generation 1-17 and transmission cooperative is responsible for the cumulative 1-18 total of its cooperative members' renewable energy requirements and 1-19 its affiliated cooperative members' renewable energy requirements. 1-20 The commission may not require a cooperative that elects under this 1-21 subsection to allocate the cooperative's renewable resources 1-22 between its members or its affiliated members when those resources 1-23 are nominated. This subsection does not affect the cumulative 1-24 total of renewable energy resources that are the responsibility of 1-25 a generation and transmission cooperative, its cooperative members, 1-26 or its affiliated cooperative members in meeting their share of the 1-27 state's goals for renewable energy resources. 1-28 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 1-29 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 1-30 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this 1-31 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 1-32 Act takes effect September 1, 2001. 1-33 * * * * *