By: Whitmire S.B. No. 240
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the number of consecutive years a person may serve on
1-2 certain mass transit authority boards.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (h), Section 6B, Chapter 141, Acts of
1-5 the 63rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1118x,
1-6 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (h) A member of the board of an authority in which the
1-8 principal city has a population of more than 1,200,000, according
1-9 to the most recent federal census, serves a term of two years. A
1-10 vacancy on a board subject to this subsection shall be filled by
1-11 the agency that appointed the member whose position has become
1-12 vacant for the remainder of the unexpired term. In the case of a
1-13 vacancy in a position whose previous occupant was appointed by the
1-14 mayor of the principal city and confirmed by that city's governing
1-15 body, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment of the mayor and
1-16 confirmation of the governing body. A person may not serve <a
1-17 total of> more than eight consecutive years<, whether or not
1-18 consecutive,> on a board subject to this subsection, except as a
1-19 holdover pending the qualification of a successor, and may not be
1-20 appointed if, at the end of the term for which the person is being
1-21 considered, the person's service would exceed this requirement.
1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 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.