1-1 By: Uher (Senate Sponsor - Patterson) H.B. No. 2183
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 10, 1995;
1-3 April 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; April 27, 1995, reported favorably by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 27, 1995, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to the creation of a mass transit department in cities of
1-10 a certain population.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 2(a), Article 1118z, Revised Statutes, is
1-13 amended to read as follows:
1-14 (a) This article applies only to an incorporated city or
1-15 town that operates a mass transportation system and has a
1-16 population of 50,000 <56,000> or more, according to the most recent
1-17 federal census. This article does not apply to a city or town that
1-18 is located wholly or partly either in a county that contains
1-19 territory within the corporate limits of a "principal city," or
1-20 within a federal metropolitan statistical area or primary
1-21 metropolitan statistical area that contains a "principal city," as
1-22 that term is defined by Chapter 141, Acts of the 63rd Legislature,
1-23 Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1118x, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-24 Statutes), or Chapter 683, Acts of the 66th Legislature, Regular
1-25 Session, 1979 (Article 1118y, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), if
1-26 the "principal city" is included within the boundaries of a transit
1-27 authority created under either of those Acts.
1-28 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-33 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-34 passage, and it is so enacted.
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