H.B. No. 1948
AN ACT
relating to the membership of the electric utility restructuring
legislative oversight committee.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.907, Utilities Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (h) to read as
follows:
(b) The committee is composed of six members as follows:
(1) [the chair of the Senate Committee on Economic
Development and] the chair of the House Committee on Regulated
Industries [State Affairs, who shall serve as joint chairs of the
committee];
(2) three [two] members of the senate appointed by the
lieutenant governor; and
(3) two members of the house of representatives
appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives.
(h) The chair of the House Committee on Regulated Industries
and one of the members of the senate serving on the committee,
designated by the lieutenant governor, shall serve as joint chairs
of the committee.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1948 was passed by the House on April
3, 2003, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 1948 on May 23, 2003, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0,
1 present, not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1948 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 22, 2003, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor