By Seaman H.B. No. 1771
75R5811 DWS-D
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.