78R6218 CBH-D
By: Baxter H.B. No. 1948
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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(b), Utilities Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(b) The committee is composed of six members as follows:
(1) the chair of the Senate Committee on Business and
Commerce [Economic Development] and the chair of the House
Committee on Regulated Industries [State Affairs], who shall serve
as joint chairs of the committee;
(2) 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.
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.