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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