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.