By Seaman                                       H.B. No. 1771

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the residence of a member of the Texas Transportation

 1-3     Commission.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 201.051(b), Transportation Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (b)  One member must reside in an [a rural] area not within

 1-8     75 miles of a county with a population of 500,000 or more.

 1-9           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only

1-10     to appointments to the Texas Transportation Commission that are

1-11     made on or after the effective date of this Act.

1-12           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.