LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
April 25, 2001
TO: Honorable David Sibley, Chair, Senate Committee on
Business & Commerce
FROM: John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE: SB1825 by Sibley (Relating to state energy policy and
the creation, powers, and duties of the Texas Energy
Policy Council.), Committee Report 1st House,
Substituted
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* No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated. *
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The bill would create the nine member Texas Energy Policy Council
consisting of the chairman of the Public Utility Commission, the chairman
of the Railroad Commission, the chairman of the Texas Natural Resource
Conservation Commission, two state senators, two state representatives,
an academic appointed by the Governor, and the director of the State
Energy Conservation Office housed within the Comptroller of Public
Accounts. The Council would be charged with the duty to establish
statewide energy policy and to submit a long-term statewide energy plan
to the Legislature by December 1, 2002. Recommendations for plan
revisions would be submitted to the Legislature by December 1st of each
even-numbered year. The bill would prohibit Council members from
receiving compensation but would allow reimbursement of actual expenses,
although it would not provide a state agency with the appropriations
authority to make the reimbursements.
The bill would take effect on September 1, 2001.
Local Government Impact
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
Source Agencies: 475 Office of Public Utility Counsel, 582 Texas
Natural Resource Conservation Commission
LBB Staff: JK, JO, KM