(KTEN) -- Frustration is leading to proposed legislation after last week's winter storms triggered power failures that left more than 4 million Texans in the dark.

State Sen. Drew Springer (R-District 30) has introduced Senate Bill 743, which would require all board members of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to be a resident of the state. ERCOT manages the state's electrical grid.

"I think the entire leadership of ERCOT needs to be changed out," Springer said. "If you make this type of mistake you have to be held accountable." 

Springer agrees with his fellow Texans that the response to the power outages was unacceptable.

"We were without power for three or four days," said Donna Crain, a Pottsboro resident who lost power.  "Ten hours at a time. Sometimes it would come on for 10 minutes, sometime for 30 minutes."

Seeing and hearing the frustration from people all over Texas, Springer filed the bill on Tuesday so that nothing like this will happen again. 

"If you don't have skin in the game... if you're not sitting here... if you don't have to answer your neighbors at the grocery store, at the restaurant and understand what's going on... you have a hard time realizing the impact that your decision makes," Springer said.

Pottsboro resident Melda Lend agrees with the Republican lawmaker. 

"They need to feel what we feel and know how it feels to live like this here, and no help," she said. "If they live somewhere else, how do they know how we feel?" 

"I just think that if they have to go through the same thing that we are going through, they will work harder to improve the systems," Crain added. 

Had Springer been a member of the ERCOT board, preparations for the winter weather would have begun sooner. 

"I would've made sure that they were doing all the things correctly leading up to this, and if we didn't think that they were doing the winterization that they were supposed to do, I would've raised the flags," he said. 

Senate Bill 743 goes to a vote in late March or April. If passed, it would take effect September 1.