By Naishtat                                           H.B. No. 2805
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2805:
          By Hill                                           C.S.H.B. No. 2805
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    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.  Section 392.0331, Local Government Code, is
    1-6  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 a regional housing authority and the total number of
   1-12  units in the authority is more than 750.
   1-13        (b)  In appointing commissioners under Section 392.031, a
   1-14  municipality shall appoint at least one commissioner to a municipal
   1-15  housing authority who is a tenant of a public housing project over
   1-16  which the municipal housing authority has jurisdiction.
   1-17        (c)  In appointing commissioners under Section 392.032, a
   1-18  county shall appoint at least one commissioner to a county housing
   1-19  authority who is a tenant of a public housing project over which
   1-20  the county housing authority has jurisdiction.
   1-21        (d)  In appointing commissioners under Section 392.033, a
   1-22  county or counties comprising a regional housing authority shall
   1-23  appoint at least one commissioner to a regional housing authority
   1-24  who is a tenant of a public housing project over which the regional
    2-1  housing authority has jurisdiction.  If more than one county
    2-2  comprises a regional housing authority, the counties shall agree to
    2-3  a method for appointing the tenant member to the regional housing
    2-4  authority.
    2-5        (e)  A commissioner appointed under this section may not be
    2-6  an officer or employee of the municipality or county that appoints
    2-7  the commissioner.
    2-8        (f)  A commissioner appointed under this section may not be
    2-9  reappointed to consecutive terms.
   2-10        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act to Section
   2-11  392.0331, Local Government Code, does not affect the ability of a
   2-12  commissioner of a housing authority serving on the effective date
   2-13  of this Act to continue to serve the remainder of the term to which
   2-14  the member is appointed before that date.  As the terms of
   2-15  commissioners of the housing authority expire or as a vacancy is
   2-16  created in a commissioner's position, the presiding officer of the
   2-17  municipality shall appoint the tenant member required by Section
   2-18  392.0331, Local Government Code, as amended by this Act.
   2-19        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.