By Lewis of Orange                                    H.B. No. 2699
       74R4167 PAM-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to representation requirements for members of a municipal
    1-3  planning commission in certain municipalities.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 212.006(b), Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  In a municipality with a population of more than 450,000
    1-8  <1.5 million>, at least two members of the municipal planning
    1-9  commission, but not more than 25 percent of the membership of the
   1-10  commission, must be residents of the area outside the limits of the
   1-11  municipality and in which the municipality exercises its authority
   1-12  to approve subdivision plats.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  In a municipality that has a planning commission
   1-14  and that, by this Act, is made subject to Section 212.006(b), Local
   1-15  Government Code, the authority that makes appointments to the
   1-16  commission shall make appointments, as commission members' terms
   1-17  expire or as vacancies on the commission occur, to achieve as soon
   1-18  as possible the membership plan established by Section 212.006(b),
   1-19  Local Government Code.  During the time after this Act takes effect
   1-20  and before the membership plan is achieved under this section, the
   1-21  validity of the actions of the planning commission is not affected
   1-22  by the fact that the commission is not composed as required by
   1-23  Section 212.006(b), Local Government Code.
   1-24        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.