By Wilson                                             H.B. No. 1115
       74R4522 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to filling a vacancy on the boards of certain mass transit
    1-3  authorities.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 6B, Chapter 141, Acts of the 63rd
    1-6  Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1118x, Vernon's Texas
    1-7  Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (k) to read as
    1-8  follows:
    1-9        (k)  If more than 45 days have occurred since the end of the
   1-10  term of a member of the board of an authority in which the
   1-11  principal city has a population of more than 1.2 million and the
   1-12  member is serving as a holdover because the appointing entity has
   1-13  failed to make an appointment to the position, an appointment for
   1-14  the position shall be made by:
   1-15              (1)  the commissioners court of a county described in
   1-16  Subsection (a) of this section, if the original appointment is
   1-17  required to be made under this section by the principal city or
   1-18  jointly by municipalities other than the principal city; or
   1-19              (2)  the governing body of the principal city, if the
   1-20  original appointment is required to be made under this section by
   1-21  the commissioners court.
   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.