By Dukes                                              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.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.  The
   1-12  changes in law made by this Act apply only to appointments to a
   1-13  governing board of an urban renewal agency after the effective date
   1-14  of this Act.  Appointments made before the effective date of this
   1-15  Act are governed by the law in effect at the time.
   1-16        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and the imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.