H.B. No. 2805
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the appointment of a tenant member to the governing
1-3 body of a municipal housing authority.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 392.0331(a) and (f), Local Government
1-6 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) This section applies only to:
1-8 (1) a municipality <with a population of 75,000 or
1-9 more>; or
1-10 (2) a county that has a county housing authority or is
1-11 a member of regional housing authority and the total number of
1-12 units in the authority is more than 750.
1-13 (f) A commissioner appointed under this section may not be
1-14 reappointed to consecutive terms.
1-15 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
1-16 392.0331, Local Government Code, does not affect the ability of a
1-17 commissioner of a housing authority serving on the effective date
1-18 of this Act to continue to serve the remainder of the term to which
1-19 the member is appointed before that date. As the terms of
1-20 commissioners of the housing authority expire or as a vacancy is
1-21 created in a commissioner's position, the presiding officer of the
1-22 municipality shall appoint the tenant member required by Section
1-23 392.0331, Local Government Code, as amended by this Act.
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.