1-1  By:  Truan                                             S.B. No. 983
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 1995; March 8, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
    1-4  Relations; March 22, 1995, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; March 22, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to meetings of the mayors of municipalities for the
    1-9  purpose of making appointments to certain metropolitan rapid
   1-10  transit authorities.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Subsection (d), Section 6B, Chapter 141, Acts of
   1-13  the 63rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1118x,
   1-14  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
   1-15        (d)  When this Act requires that the mayors of municipalities
   1-16  except the principal city appoint a member of the board, the mayor
   1-17  of the municipality of greatest population among the municipalities
   1-18  shall serve as chairman of an appointment board composed of the
   1-19  mayors of all appropriate municipalities and shall, by notice in
   1-20  writing to all members, call meetings of the appointment board as
   1-21  necessary to make the appointments.  Appointments shall be made
   1-22  within 60 days after a position comes into existence or becomes
   1-23  vacant.  For an authority in which the principal city has a
   1-24  population of less than 300,000, according to the most recent
   1-25  federal census, in the event any mayor who serves on an appointment
   1-26  board is unable to attend a meeting, the mayor may designate
   1-27  another council member, alderman, commissioner, or other officer of
   1-28  the municipality to represent the municipality and vote at such
   1-29  meeting.  The designation shall be in writing, signed by the mayor,
   1-30  and filed with the minutes of such meeting kept by the authority.
   1-31  If the boundaries of the authority at any time include
   1-32  unincorporated areas of a county other than the county described in
   1-33  Subsection (a) of this section, the county judge of the appropriate
   1-34  county is entitled to serve on the appointment board, with powers
   1-35  equal to the other members of the board, as if the unincorporated
   1-36  area of the county were a municipality and the county judge of that
   1-37  county were the mayor of the municipality.
   1-38        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-39        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-40  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-41  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-42  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-43  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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