By Giddings                                           H.B. No. 2245
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the appointment and removal of commissioners of a
    1-3  municipal housing authority.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 392, Local Government Code,
    1-6  is amended by adding Section 392.044 to read as follows:
    1-7        SECTION 392.044.  APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF COMMISSIONERS BY
    1-8  CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES.
    1-9        The governing body of a municipality that has a population of
   1-10  one million or more and that has adopted a council-manager form of
   1-11  government may by ordinance provide that the full governing body,
   1-12  instead of the mayor, shall:
   1-13        (1)  appoint the commissioners of a municipal housing
   1-14  authority under Section 392.031;
   1-15        (2)  designate the initial chair of a municipal housing
   1-16  authority under Section 392.037;
   1-17        (3)  have the power to remove commissioners of a municipal
   1-18  housing authority under Section 392.041; and
   1-19        (4)  assume all other powers and duties given to a mayor
   1-20  under this chapter regarding a municipal housing authority.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-3  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-4  passage, and it is so enacted.