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.
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   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
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   1-63                               WITNESSES
   1-64  No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 240.