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By Lewis of Tarrant H.B. No. 2376
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to eligibility for appointment to a subregional board of a
1-3 transportation authority.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 452.541, Transportation Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 452.541. BOARD MEMBERSHIP: ELIGIBILITY [RESIDENCY IN
1-8 AUTHORITY]. To be eligible for appointment to a subregional board,
1-9 a person must be a resident in the jurisdiction of the entity
1-10 making the appointment. [A member of a subregional board must be a
1-11 qualified voter residing in the authority.]
1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.