Amend HB 883 by striking Sections 3, 4, 5, and 6 of the bill
and substituting the following:
      SECTION 3.  Subchapter K, Chapter 451, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 451.5021 to read as follows:
      Sec. 451.5021.  BOARD COMPOSITION; CERTAIN AUTHORITIES.
(a)  This section applies only to the board of an authority in
which each member of the governing body of the principal
municipality is elected at large.
      (b)  The board is composed of seven members who are appointed
as follows:
            (1)  two members representing the general public
appointed by the metropolitan planning organization designated by
the governor that serves the area of the authority;
            (2)  two members appointed by the governing body of the
principal municipality;
            (3)  one member appointed by the commissioners court of
the principal county;
            (4)  one member appointed by a panel composed of the
mayors of all the municipalities in the authority located in the
principal county of the authority excluding the mayor of the
principal municipality; and
            (5)  one member appointed by a panel composed of:
                  (A)  the mayors of all municipalities in the
authority located outside the principal county of the authority,
excluding the mayor of the principal municipality;
                  (B)  the county judges of the counties having
unincorporated area in the authority, excluding the county judge of
the principal county; and
                  (C)  the presiding officer of each municipal
utility district any portion of which is located outside the
principal county.
      (c)  Only a member of a metropolitan planning organization
who is an elected officer of a political subdivision in which a tax
of the authority is collected is entitled to vote on an appointment
under Subsection (b)(1).
      (d)  A person appointed under Subsection (b)(2), (3), (4), or
(5):
            (1)  must be a member of the governing body:
                  (A)  of the political subdivision that is
entitled to make the appointment; or
                  (B)  over which a member of the panel entitled to
make an appointment presides;
            (2)  vacates the office of board member if the person
ceases to be a member of the governing body described by
Subdivision (1);
            (3)  serves on the board as an additional duty of the
office held on the governing body described by Subdivision (1); and
            (4)  is not entitled to compensation for serving as a
member of the board.
      (e)  A panel appointing a member under this section operates
in the manner prescribed by Section 451.503.
      (f)  In this section, "principal county" has the meaning
assigned by Section 451.501(f).
      SECTION 4.  (a)  This section applies only to an authority
governed by a board to which Section 451.5021, Transportation Code,
as added by this Act, applies.
      (b)  Effective immediately, the terms of all  members serving
on the board on the effective date of this Act expire.  The
authority is managed by a temporary board consisting of five
members appointed by the executive committee of the metropolitan
planning organization designated by the governor that serves the
area of the authority. The temporary board has all the powers of a
board under Chapter 451, Transportation Code.  Only a member of the
executive committee who is elected from a political subdivision in
which a tax of the authority is collected is entitled to vote on an
appointment under this section.  The terms of all members serving
on the temporary board expire when a majority of the members of the
board appointed under Section 451.5021, Transportation Code, as
added by this Act, take office.
      (c)  The governmental entities entitled to make appointments
under Section 451.5021, Transportation Code, as added by this Act,
shall make the initial appointments as soon as practical after the
effective date of Section 3 of this Act.
      SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect August 15, 1997, except
that this section and Section 4 of this Act take effect
immediately.
      SECTION 6.  The importance of this legislation and the
crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
terms, and it is so enacted.