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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.