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.