1-1 By: Whitmire S.B. No. 240
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 2, 1993; February 3, 1993,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; March 3, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 11, Nays 0; March 3, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Armbrister x
1-9 Leedom x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Madla x
1-13 Moncrief x
1-14 Patterson x
1-15 Rosson x
1-16 Shapiro x
1-17 Wentworth x
1-18 Whitmire x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to the number of consecutive years a person may serve on
1-22 certain mass transit authority boards.
1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-24 SECTION 1. Subsection (h), Section 6B, Chapter 141, Acts of
1-25 the 63rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1118x,
1-26 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-27 (h) A member of the board of an authority in which the
1-28 principal city has a population of more than 1,200,000, according
1-29 to the most recent federal census, serves a term of two years. A
1-30 vacancy on a board subject to this subsection shall be filled by
1-31 the agency that appointed the member whose position has become
1-32 vacant for the remainder of the unexpired term. In the case of a
1-33 vacancy in a position whose previous occupant was appointed by the
1-34 mayor of the principal city and confirmed by that city's governing
1-35 body, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment of the mayor and
1-36 confirmation of the governing body. A person may not serve <a
1-37 total of> more than eight consecutive years<, whether or not
1-38 consecutive,> on a board subject to this subsection, except as a
1-39 holdover pending the qualification of a successor, and may not be
1-40 appointed if, at the end of the term for which the person is being
1-41 considered, the person's service would exceed this requirement.
1-42 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-43 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-44 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-45 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-46 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-47 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-48 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-49 * * * * *
1-50 Austin,
1-51 Texas
1-52 March 3, 1993
1-53 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-54 President of the Senate
1-55 Sir:
1-56 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
1-57 referred S.B. No. 240, have had the same under consideration, and I
1-58 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
1-59 recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
1-60 Armbrister,
1-61 Chairman
1-62 * * * * *
1-63 WITNESSES
1-64 No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 240.