H.B. 1948 78(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


H.B. 1948
By: Baxter
Regulated Industries
Committee Report (Unamended)



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

The electric utility restructuring legislative oversight committee was
created to oversee the implementation of Senate Bill 7 (from the 76th
Legislature). Currently, the chairs of the Senate Committee on Economic
Development and the House Committee on State Affairs serve as the cochairs
of the electric utility restructuring legislative oversight committee.
With the structural changes in the House of Representatives and the
Senate, responsibility for oversight of Senate Bill 7 has moved. HB 1948
will make the chair of the Senate Committee on Business and Commerce and
the chair of the House Committee on Regulated Industries the joint chairs
of the of the electric utility restructuring legislative oversight
committee. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any
additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or
institution. 

ANALYSIS

This bill changes the joint chairmanship of the electric utility
restructuring legislative oversight committee from the chairs of the
Senate Committee on Economic Development and the House Committee on State
Affairs to the chair of the Senate Committee on Business and Commerce and
the chair of the House Committee on Regulated Industries. 

EFFECTIVE DATE

Upon passage, or, if the Act does not receive the necessary vote, the Act
takes effect September 1, 2003.