83R6602 RWG-D
By: Fraser S.B. No. 961
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to access by members of certain electric cooperatives to
meetings of the boards of directors and certain information of the
electric cooperatives.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 161, Utilities Code, is
amended by adding Section 161.0721 to read as follows:
Sec. 161.0721. ELECTION OF DIRECTORS IN CERTAIN LARGE
COOPERATIVES. (a) This section applies only to an electric
cooperative with more than 180,000 members that is partially
located in a county with a population of more than one million and
less than 1.5 million.
(b) Directors may be elected only by district. The board
shall establish single-member districts from which the directors
are to be elected. In establishing districts, the board shall
attempt to have directors represent geographic areas with equal
numbers of people.
(c) A member may vote for a director to represent a district
only if the member resides in that district.
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by Section 161.0721,
Utilities Code, as added by this Act, apply only to a director
election held on or after the effective date of this Act. A
director election held before the effective date of this Act is
subject to the law in effect on the date the election is held, and
that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.