By Lindsay                                       S.B. No. 601

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to withdrawal of a unit from a rapid transit authority.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 451.617(a), Transportation Code, is

 1-5     amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (a)  In an authority created before 1980 in which the

 1-7     principal municipality has a population of 750,000 or more [less

 1-8     than 1.2 million], a unit of election, other than the principal

 1-9     municipality, may  withdraw from the authority, in addition to any

1-10     other manner provided by law, by a vote of a majority of the

1-11     registered voters of the unit of election voting at an election on

1-12     the question of withdrawing from the authority.

1-13           SECTION 2.  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,

1-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-19     passage, and it is so enacted.