Bill Text: TX SB961 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to access by members of certain electric cooperatives to meetings of the boards of directors and certain information of the electric cooperatives.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-28 - Filed [SB961 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB961-Introduced.html
| 83R6602 RWG-D | ||
| By: Fraser | S.B. No. 961 | |
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| relating to access by members of certain electric cooperatives to | ||
| meetings of the boards of directors and certain information of the | ||
| electric cooperatives. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 161, Utilities Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 161.0721 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 161.0721. ELECTION OF DIRECTORS IN CERTAIN LARGE | ||
| COOPERATIVES. (a) This section applies only to an electric | ||
| cooperative with more than 180,000 members that is partially | ||
| located in a county with a population of more than one million and | ||
| less than 1.5 million. | ||
| (b) Directors may be elected only by district. The board | ||
| 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 may vote for a director to represent a district | ||
| only if the member resides in that district. | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by Section 161.0721, | ||
| Utilities Code, as added by this Act, apply only to a director | ||
| election held on or after the effective date of this Act. A | ||
| director election 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. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
