By: Menéndez S.B. No. 2110
(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2017; March 28, 2017, read
first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
April 6, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
Nays 0; April 6, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the composition of the Port Authority Advisory
Committee.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 55.006(a), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) The committee consists of eight [seven] members
appointed by the commission. The members shall be appointed as
follows:
(1) one member from the Port of Houston Authority;
(2) three members who represent maritime ports on the
upper Texas coast; [and]
(3) three members who represent maritime ports on the
lower Texas coast; and
(4) one member who represents an inland port.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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