By Conley H.B. No. 1663
74R2471 GCH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of
1-3 improvements by mass transit authorities.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 6(x), Chapter 141, Acts of the 63rd
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1118x, Vernon's Texas
1-7 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-8 (x) Except as provided by Subsection (u) of this section, an
1-9 authority that was confirmed at a tax election under Section 5 of
1-10 this Act before January 1, 1985, <other than an authority that is
1-11 authorized under Subsection (e) of Section 6C of this Act to
1-12 include regional economic development facilities in its station or
1-13 terminal complex,> may, within the boundaries of the authority,
1-14 construct, reconstruct, or maintain any sidewalk, hiking trail, or
1-15 biking trail. An authority subject to this subsection also may
1-16 install or maintain streetlights. In performing these activities,
1-17 an authority may perform such drainage improvement or
1-18 drainage-related maintenance activities as are reasonable and
1-19 necessary for the effective use of the transportation facility
1-20 being constructed, reconstructed, or maintained. An authority may
1-21 exercise any portion of the powers granted by this subsection
1-22 through contracts or other agreements with other governmental
1-23 entities and, in particular, may enter into agreements under
1-24 Chapter 791, Government Code, with state agencies enumerated in
2-1 Section 771.002, Government Code.
2-2 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.