Bill Text: TX HB2529 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the membership of the governing body of the independent organization certified for the ERCOT power region.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-17 - Referred to State Affairs [HB2529 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2529-Introduced.html
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By: Davis | H.B. No. 2529 |
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relating to the membership of the governing body of the independent | ||
organization certified for the ERCOT power region. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.151, Utilities Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (g) and (g-1) and adding Subsection (g-2) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(g) To maintain certification as an independent | ||
organization under this section, an organization's governing body | ||
must be composed of persons specified by this section and selected | ||
in accordance with formal bylaws or protocols of the organization. | ||
The bylaws or protocols must be approved by the commission and must | ||
reflect the input of the commission. The bylaws must specify the | ||
process by which appropriate stakeholders elect members and, for | ||
unaffiliated members, prescribe professional qualifications for | ||
selection as a member. The bylaws must require the use of a | ||
professional search firm to identify candidates for membership of | ||
unaffiliated members. The process must allow for commission input | ||
in identifying candidates. The governing body must be composed of: | ||
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representing residential and small commercial consumer interests; | ||
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independent organization as an ex officio voting member; | ||
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respective market segments to serve one-year terms, with: | ||
(A) one representing independent generators; | ||
(B) one representing investor-owned utilities; | ||
(C) one representing power marketers; | ||
(D) one representing retail electric providers; | ||
(E) one representing municipally owned | ||
utilities; and | ||
(F) one representing electric cooperatives; | ||
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interests and elected by the industrial consumer market segment to | ||
serve a one-year term; | ||
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consumer interests selected in accordance with the bylaws to serve | ||
a one-year term; and | ||
(6) (7) five members unaffiliated with any market | ||
segment and selected by the other members of the governing body to | ||
serve three-year terms. | ||
(g-1) The presiding officer of the governing body must be | ||
one of the members described by Subsection (g)(6) [ |
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(g-2) To maintain certification as an independent | ||
organization under this section, an organization's governing body | ||
may not include a commissioner as a member. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |