By Ellis                                              S.B. No. 1208
       74R2414 PAM-D
                                 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(a), 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        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act to Section
   1-14  392.0331(a), Local Government Code, does not affect the ability of
   1-15  a commissioner of a housing authority serving on the effective date
   1-16  of this Act to continue to serve the remainder of the term to which
   1-17  the member is appointed before that date.  As the terms of
   1-18  commissioners of the housing authority expire or as a vacancy is
   1-19  created in a commissioner's position, the presiding officer of the
   1-20  municipality shall appoint the tenant member required by Section
   1-21  392.0331, Local Government Code, as amended by this Act.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.