By Talton                                             H.B. No. 1453
       74R5638 GCH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the creation of metropolitan transit authorities.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 3B(a), 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        (a)  For the purposes of this section, "alternate city" is a
    1-8  city:
    1-9              (1)  with a population in excess of 60,000 but less
   1-10  than 100,000, according to the most recent federal census;
   1-11              (2)  located in a metropolitan area in which the
   1-12  population of the principal city exceeds 1,200,000 according to the
   1-13  most recent federal census; and
   1-14              (3)  not part of the territory of an existing
   1-15  authority.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  An authority created by an entity that was an
   1-17  alternate city under Section 3B(a), Chapter 141, Acts of the 63rd
   1-18  Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1118x, Vernon's Texas
   1-19  Civil Statutes), as it existed immediately before the effective
   1-20  date of this Act, but is no longer an alternate city under that
   1-21  provision, as amended by this Act, is dissolved on the effective
   1-22  date of this Act unless its continued existence has been confirmed
   1-23  before that date at a confirmation and tax election.
   1-24        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-5  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-6  passage, and it is so enacted.