Bill Text: TX HB4208 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the management and control of certain municipal electric utility systems.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-11 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB4208 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4208-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the management and control of certain municipal electric utility systems.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-11 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB4208 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4208-Introduced.html
88R14543 JXC-D | ||
By: Troxclair | H.B. No. 4208 |
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relating to the management and control of certain municipal | ||
electric utility systems. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 552.122, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
(c) A municipality with a population of more than 750,000 | ||
that did not transfer management and control of the municipality's | ||
electric utility system to a board of trustees under this | ||
subchapter before September 1, 2023, shall transfer management and | ||
control of the municipality's electric utility system to a board of | ||
trustees appointed by the municipality's governing body. The board | ||
of trustees may not include more than five members. If the service | ||
territory of the municipality's electric utility system includes at | ||
least four municipalities, the mayors of the four municipalities in | ||
the service territory that have the greatest number of retail | ||
customers are each entitled to appoint a member to the board of | ||
trustees. To serve as a member of the board of trustees, a person | ||
must have at least five years of experience: | ||
(1) in the administration of business or government; | ||
or | ||
(2) as a practicing attorney, certified public | ||
accountant, or professional engineer. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |