H.B. No. 2183
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the creation of a mass transit department in cities of
1-3 a certain population.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2(a), Article 1118z, Revised Statutes, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) This article applies only to an incorporated city or
1-8 town that operates a mass transportation system and has a
1-9 population of 50,000 <56,000> or more, according to the most recent
1-10 federal census. This article does not apply to a city or town that
1-11 is located wholly or partly either in a county that contains
1-12 territory within the corporate limits of a "principal city," or
1-13 within a federal metropolitan statistical area or primary
1-14 metropolitan statistical area that contains a "principal city," as
1-15 that term is defined by Chapter 141, Acts of the 63rd Legislature,
1-16 Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1118x, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-17 Statutes), or Chapter 683, Acts of the 66th Legislature, Regular
1-18 Session, 1979 (Article 1118y, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), if
1-19 the "principal city" is included within the boundaries of a transit
1-20 authority created under either of those Acts.
1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 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.