Bill Text: TX HB1737 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the terms of the public members of the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-02 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB1737 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1737-Introduced.html
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By: Naishtat | H.B. No. 1737 |
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relating to the terms of the public members of the Texas Holocaust | ||
and Genocide Commission. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 449.008(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) Public members [ |
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staggered four-year terms with the terms of seven or eight members | ||
expiring February 1 of each odd-numbered year [ |
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SECTION 2. When appointing public members to the Texas | ||
Holocaust and Genocide Commission to serve terms that begin | ||
February 1, 2015: | ||
(1) the governor shall appoint two members to terms | ||
expiring February 1, 2017, and three members to terms expiring | ||
February 1, 2019; | ||
(2) the lieutenant governor shall appoint three | ||
members to terms expiring February 1, 2017, and two members to terms | ||
expiring February 1, 2019; and | ||
(3) the speaker of the house of representatives shall | ||
appoint two members to terms expiring February 1, 2017, and three | ||
members to terms expiring February 1, 2019. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |