Bill Text: TX SB1598 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an interim study regarding the composition of the Lower Colorado River Authority board of directors.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-23 - Referred to Agriculture, Water, & Rural Affairs [SB1598 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1598-Introduced.html
84R7815 TSR-F | ||
By: Kolkhorst | S.B. No. 1598 |
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relating to an interim study regarding the composition of the Lower | ||
Colorado River Authority board of directors. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. INTERIM COMMITTEE; STUDY. (a) A joint interim | ||
committee consisting of the members of the Senate Committee on | ||
Agriculture, Water, and Rural Affairs and the members of the House | ||
Committee on Natural Resources is created to study the effects of | ||
altering the composition of the Lower Colorado River Authority | ||
board of directors. | ||
(b) The study must consider: | ||
(1) expanding the board from 15 directors to 17 | ||
directors; | ||
(2) reducing the number of directors appointed from | ||
counties served with electric power from three directors to two | ||
directors; | ||
(3) appointing two directors to represent | ||
agricultural interests; and | ||
(4) appointing one director to represent interests | ||
related to the ecological health and economic productivity of bays | ||
and estuaries affected by the Lower Colorado River Authority. | ||
(c) Not later than December 1, 2016, the joint interim | ||
committee shall report the committee's findings and | ||
recommendations to the members of the legislature. | ||
SECTION 2. ABOLITION OF COMMITTEE. The committee is | ||
abolished and this Act expires December 31, 2016. | ||
SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect September | ||
1, 2015. |