Sec. 659.1401.  GROUNDS FOR REMOVAL FROM STATE POLICY COMMITTEE.  (a)  It is a ground for removal from the state policy committee that a member:
(1)  does not have at the time of taking office the qualifications required by Section 659.140;
(2)  does not maintain during service on the state policy committee the qualifications required by Section 659.140;
(3)  is ineligible for membership under Section 659.140;
(4)  cannot, because of illness or disability, discharge the member's duties for a substantial part of the member's term; or
(5)  is absent from more than half of the regularly scheduled state policy committee meetings that the member is eligible to attend during a calendar year without an excuse approved by a majority vote of the state policy committee.
(b)  The validity of an action of the state policy committee is not affected by the fact that it is taken when a ground for removal of a state policy committee member exists.
(c)  If the chair of the state policy committee has knowledge that a potential ground for removal exists, the chair shall notify the governor and the attorney general that a potential ground for removal exists.  If the potential ground for removal involves the chair, another member of the state policy committee shall notify the governor and the attorney general that a potential ground for removal exists.
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1315 (S.B. 217), Sec. 6, eff. September 1, 2013.