Amend CSHB 1926 (senate committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION____. Subchapter E, Chapter 163, Utilities Code, is amended by adding Section 163.125 to read as follows:
Sec. 163.125. ELECTION OF DIRECTORS. (a) This section applies only to an electric cooperative corporation:
(1) with more than 200,000 members;
(2) that is partially located in a county with a population of more than one million and less than 1.5 million; and
(3) that may participate in a joint powers agency created under this subchapter.
(b) Directors of an electric cooperative corporation may be elected only by district. The board of directors of an electric cooperative corporation shall establish single-member districts from which the directors are to be elected. In establishing districts, the board shall attempt to have directors represent geographic areas with equal numbers of people.
(c) A member of an electric cooperative corporation may vote for a director to represent a district only if the member resides in that district.
SECTION____. The changes in law made by Section 163.125, Utilities Code, as added by this Act, apply only to an election of electric cooperative corporation directors held on or after the effective date of this Act. An election of electric cooperative corporation directors held before the effective date of this Act is subject to the law in effect on the date the election is held, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.