1-1  By:  Naishtat (Senate Sponsor - Ellis)                H.B. No. 2805
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 4, 1995;
    1-3  May 5, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Intergovernmental Relations; May 17, 1995, reported favorably by
    1-5  the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 17, 1995, sent to
    1-6  printer.)
    1-7                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-8                                AN ACT
    1-9  relating to the appointment of a tenant member to the governing
   1-10  body of a municipal housing authority.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Sections 392.0331(a) and (f), Local Government
   1-13  Code, are amended to read as follows:
   1-14        (a)  This section applies only to:
   1-15              (1)  a municipality <with a population of 75,000 or
   1-16  more>; or
   1-17              (2)  a county that has a county housing authority or is
   1-18  a member of regional housing authority and the total number of
   1-19  units in the authority is more than 750.
   1-20        (f)  A commissioner appointed under this section may not be
   1-21  reappointed to consecutive terms.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act to Section
   1-23  392.0331, Local Government Code, does not affect the ability of a
   1-24  commissioner of a housing authority serving on the effective date
   1-25  of this Act to continue to serve the remainder of the term to which
   1-26  the member is appointed before that date.  As the terms of
   1-27  commissioners of the housing authority expire or as a vacancy is
   1-28  created in a commissioner's position, the presiding officer of the
   1-29  municipality shall appoint the tenant member required by Section
   1-30  392.0331, Local Government Code, as amended by this Act.
   1-31        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-32  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-33  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-34  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-35  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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