By:  Brimer                                                       S.B. No. 1250


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to appointments to the Tobacco Settlement Permanent Trust 
Account Investment Advisory Committee.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 403.1042, Government 
Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(b)  The advisory committee is composed of 11 members 
appointed as follows:  
		(1)  one member appointed by the comptroller to 
represent a public hospital or hospital district located in a 
county with a population of 50,000 or less or a public hospital 
owned or maintained by a municipality;
		(2)  one member appointed by the political subdivision 
that, in the year preceding the appointment, received the largest 
annual distribution paid from the account;
		(3)  one member appointed by the political subdivision 
that, in the year preceding the appointment, received the second 
largest annual distribution paid from the account;
		(4)  four members appointed by the Texas Conference of 
Urban Counties, which shall receive nominations from political 
subdivisions that,[:
			[(A)]  in the year preceding the appointment, 
received the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th 
largest annual distribution paid from the account[; and
			[(B)  do not have an appointee serving on the 
advisory committee at the time of appointment];
		(5)  one member appointed by the County Judges and 
Commissioners Association of Texas;
		(6)  one member appointed by the North and East Texas 
County Judges and Commissioners Association;
		(7)  one member appointed by the South Texas County 
Judges and Commissioners Association; and
		(8)  one member appointed by the West Texas County 
Judges and Commissioners Association.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.