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.