By Finnell H.B. No. 2353 75R955 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to rural rail transportation districts. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 4, Chapter 623, Acts of the 67th 1-5 Legislature, Regular Session, 1981 (Article 6550c, Vernon's Texas 1-6 Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as 1-7 follows: 1-8 (g) An elected officer of the state or a political 1-9 subdivision of the state who is not prohibited by the Texas 1-10 Constitution from serving on the board is eligible to serve on the 1-11 board. 1-12 SECTION 2. Section 3, Chapter 623, Acts of the 67th 1-13 Legislature, Regular Session, 1981 (Article 6550c, Vernon's Texas 1-14 Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as 1-15 follows: 1-16 (f) The board of directors of each newly created district 1-17 shall provide notice to the Texas Transportation Institute of the 1-18 creation of the district. On being notified by the board, the 1-19 Texas Transportation Institute shall make available to the board a 1-20 guide to the services and information that the institute provides. 1-21 SECTION 3. (a) Not later than January 1, 1998, the Railroad 1-22 Commission of Texas shall inform the commissioners court of each 1-23 county of the county's ability to create a rural rail 1-24 transportation district under Chapter 623, Acts of the 67th 2-1 Legislature, Regular Session, 1981 (Article 6550c, Vernon's Texas 2-2 Civil Statutes). 2-3 (b) Not later than January 1, 1998, the Texas Transportation 2-4 Institute shall provide the board of each existing rural rail 2-5 transportation district a guide to the services and information 2-6 that the institute provides. 2-7 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-12 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-13 passage, and it is so enacted.