74R9523 PAM-F
          By Dukes                                              H.B. No. 2456
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2456:
          By Hill                                           C.S.H.B. No. 2456
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to appointments to the governing board of an urban renewal
    1-3  agency created by a municipality.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 374.023(a), Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  If an urban renewal agency is created by a municipality,
    1-8  <the mayor of the municipality, with the advice and consent of> the
    1-9  governing body of the municipality<,> shall appoint a board of
   1-10  commissioners for the urban renewal agency.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  Section 374.902(a), Local Government Code, is
   1-12  amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (a)  Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, <a
   1-14  statement in this chapter that applies to a mayor applies to the
   1-15  county judge of a county exercising powers under this section,> a
   1-16  statement that applies to the governing body of a municipality
   1-17  applies to the county's commissioners court<,> and a statement that
   1-18  applies to a municipality applies to the county.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  Section 374.003(12), Local Government Code, is
   1-20  repealed.
   1-21        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.  The
   1-22  change in law made by this Act applies only to an appointment to a
   1-23  governing board of an urban renewal agency made after the effective
    2-1  date of this Act.  An appointment made before the effective date of
    2-2  this Act is governed by the law in effect when the appointment was
    2-3  made, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
    2-4        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.