By: Ellis S.B. No. 777
(In the Senate - Filed February 22, 2013; February 26, 2013,
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
March 13, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
Nays 0; March 13, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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. Subsection (a), Section 449.008, Government
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(a) Public members [A public member] of the commission serve
staggered four-year terms with the terms of seven or eight members
expiring February 1 of each odd-numbered year [serves a term of four
years].
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.
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