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By Thompson H.B. No. 892
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the withdrawal of a unit of election from a
1-3 metropolitan rapid transit authority.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 451.617(a), Transportation Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) In an authority created before 1980 in which the
1-8 principal municipality has a population of [less than 1.2 million]
1-9 750,000 or greater, a unit of election, other than the
1-10 municipality, may withdraw from the authority, in addition to any
1-11 other manner provided by law, by a vote of a majority of the
1-12 registered voters of the unit of election at an election on the
1-13 question of withdrawing from the authority.
1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.