By:  Shelley                                           S.B. No. 821
                                 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.  Section 6B(h), Chapter 141, Acts of the 63rd
    1-5  Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1118x, Vernon's Texas
    1-6  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 twelve 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
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-4  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-5  passage, and it is so enacted.