Texas Legislature Legislative Activity

Here we will attempt to provide news and information involving efforts in the Texas State Legislature to deal with the abuses by Coops involving transparency, governance and abusive retention of capital credits of member owners of Coops.

Some of these links take you outside of the Coop Litigation News website so we aren't responsible for the content.

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Editorial

Texas Legislature should approve reform bill

Corruption at Pedernales prompted calls for more accountability.

Austin American-Statesman

Friday, May 29, 2009

Important legislation to make the state's 63 electric co-operatives more accountable to their members almost died this week, an innocent victim of a drive-by shooting in an unrelated partisan political warfare.  But it's still alive, and we urge lawmakers to approve it in these dying days of the current session.

A joint effort of Sen. Troy Fraser, R-Horseshoe Bay, and Rep. Patrick Rose, D-Dripping Springs, the reform legislation had cleared the Senate and the House State Affairs Committee on a 13-0 vote.

Proposed Legislation

Texas Senate Bill 921

For a discussion of Texas Senate Bill 921 see the May 28, 2009, Austin American-Statesman Editorial above endorsing this legislation in Texas "relating to access by the members of electric cooperatives to meetings of the boards of directors and certain information of the electric cooperatives."

The link below takes you to the Texas Legislature's website with the status, history and text of SB 921.