By Lindsay S.B. No. 601
75R3995 DWS-F
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.