By: Menéndez S.B. No. 2110

(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2017; March 28, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; April 6, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 6, 2017, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the composition of the Port Authority Advisory Committee.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 55.006(a), Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a) The committee consists of eight [seven] members appointed by the commission. The members shall be appointed as follows:

(1) one member from the Port of Houston Authority;

(2) three members who represent maritime ports on the upper Texas coast; [and]

(3) three members who represent maritime ports on the lower Texas coast; and

(4) one member who represents an inland port.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.

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