Bill Text: TX HB4208 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the management and control of certain municipal electric utility systems.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-11 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB4208 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4208-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Troxclair, Dean, Patterson, Goldman, | H.B. No. 4208 | ||
| Hefner | |||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 4208: | |||
| By: Smithee | C.S.H.B. No. 4208 | ||
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| relating to the management and control of certain municipal | ||
| electric utility systems. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 552, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 552.1225 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 552.1225. TRANSFER OF MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF | ||
| ELECTRIC UTILITY SYSTEM OF CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) A | ||
| municipality with a population of more than 750,000 that did not | ||
| transfer management and control of the municipality's electric | ||
| utility system to a board of trustees under this subchapter before | ||
| September 1, 2023, shall transfer management and control of the | ||
| municipality's electric utility system to a board of trustees | ||
| appointed by the municipality's governing body, except as provided | ||
| by Subsection (d). | ||
| (b) The board of trustees must include seven members who | ||
| serve staggered five-year terms. A person may not serve more than | ||
| two terms on the board of trustees. | ||
| (c) To serve as a member of the board of trustees, a person | ||
| must have at least 10 years of experience: | ||
| (1) in the administration of business or government; | ||
| (2) as a practicing attorney or certified public | ||
| accountant; or | ||
| (3) as a professional engineer in a field related to | ||
| electrical, nuclear, industrial, agricultural, architectural, | ||
| petroleum-related, chemical, power generation, or energy | ||
| transmission and distribution work. | ||
| (d) If the service territory of the municipal electric | ||
| utility includes at least four municipalities, the mayor of the | ||
| municipality in the service territory that has the greatest number | ||
| of retail customers is entitled to appoint four members to the board | ||
| of trustees, and the mayors of the remaining municipalities in the | ||
| service territory are entitled jointly to appoint the remaining | ||
| three members. The mayor of the municipality in the service | ||
| territory that has the greatest number of retail customers may | ||
| serve as a board member. Subsection (c) does not apply to that | ||
| mayor. | ||
| (e) The proceedings of the municipality may specify the | ||
| powers and duties of the board of trustees, the manner of exercising | ||
| those powers and duties, and any matter relating to the | ||
| organization and duties of the board. On any matter not covered by | ||
| the proceedings, the board of trustees is governed by the laws and | ||
| rules governing the governing body of the municipality in the | ||
| service territory that has the greatest number of retail customers, | ||
| to the extent applicable. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
