Bill Text: TX HB2227 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an interim study regarding the composition of the boards of directors of certain river authorities.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-13 - Left pending in committee [HB2227 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2227-Introduced.html
| 87R10380 SLB-D | ||
| By: Wilson | H.B. No. 2227 | |
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| relating to an interim study regarding the composition of the | ||
| boards of directors of certain river authorities. | ||
| 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 | ||
| Natural Resources and Economic Development and the members of the | ||
| House Committee on Natural Resources is created to study the | ||
| effects of altering the composition of the boards of directors of | ||
| the following river authorities: | ||
| (1) Angelina and Neches River Authority; | ||
| (2) Bandera County River Authority and Groundwater | ||
| District; | ||
| (3) Brazos River Authority; | ||
| (4) Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority; | ||
| (5) Lavaca-Navidad River Authority; | ||
| (6) Lower Colorado River Authority; | ||
| (7) Lower Neches Valley Authority; | ||
| (8) Nueces River Authority; | ||
| (9) Red River Authority of Texas; | ||
| (10) Sabine River Authority of Texas; | ||
| (11) San Jacinto River Authority; | ||
| (12) Sulphur River Basin Authority; | ||
| (13) Trinity River Authority of Texas; | ||
| (14) Upper Colorado River Authority; and | ||
| (15) Upper Guadalupe River Authority. | ||
| (b) The study must consider the benefits and logistics of: | ||
| (1) adding two elected members to each board of | ||
| directors; and | ||
| (2) adding one elected member to each board of | ||
| directors and reducing the appointed members by one for each board | ||
| of directors. | ||
| (c) Not later than December 1, 2022, 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, 2022. | ||
| SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect September | ||
| 1, 2021. | ||
