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.