1-1 By: Shelley S.B. No. 821
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1993; March 15, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; March 24, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0;
1-6 March 24, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Armbrister x
1-10 Leedom x
1-11 Carriker x
1-12 Henderson x
1-13 Madla x
1-14 Moncrief x
1-15 Patterson x
1-16 Rosson x
1-17 Shapiro x
1-18 Wentworth x
1-19 Whitmire x
1-20 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 821 By: Armbrister
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to the number of consecutive years a person may serve on
1-24 certain mass transit authority boards.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Subsection (h), Section 6B, Chapter 141, Acts of
1-27 the 63rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1118x,
1-28 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-29 (h) A member of the board of an authority in which the
1-30 principal city has a population of more than 1,200,000, according
1-31 to the most recent federal census, serves a term of two years. A
1-32 vacancy on a board subject to this subsection shall be filled by
1-33 the agency that appointed the member whose position has become
1-34 vacant for the remainder of the unexpired term. In the case of a
1-35 vacancy in a position whose previous occupant was appointed by the
1-36 mayor of the principal city and confirmed by that city's governing
1-37 body, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment of the mayor and
1-38 confirmation of the governing body. A person may not serve <a
1-39 total of> more than 12 consecutive <eight> years<, whether or not
1-40 consecutive,> on a board subject to this subsection, except as a
1-41 holdover pending the qualification of a successor, and may not be
1-42 appointed if, at the end of the term for which the person is being
1-43 considered, the person's service would exceed this requirement.
1-44 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-45 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-46 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-47 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-48 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-49 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-50 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-51 * * * * *
1-52 Austin,
1-53 Texas
1-54 March 24, 1993
1-55 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-56 President of the Senate
1-57 Sir:
1-58 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
1-59 referred S.B. No. 821, have had the same under consideration, and I
1-60 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
1-61 recommendation that it do not pass, but that the Committee
1-62 Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do pass and be printed.
1-63 Armbrister,
1-64 Chairman
1-65 * * * * *
1-66 WITNESSES
1-67 FOR AGAINST ON
1-68 ___________________________________________________________________
2-1 Name: Richard Evans x
2-2 Representing: Senator Dan Shelley
2-3 City: Austin
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