By:  Moncrief                                 S.B. No. 860

         97S0506/1                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to eligibility for appointment to a subregional board of a

 1-2     transportation authority.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 452.541, Transportation Code, is amended

 1-5     to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 452.541.  BOARD MEMBERSHIP:  ELIGIBILITY [RESIDENCY IN

 1-7     AUTHORITY].  To be eligible for appointment to a subregional board,

 1-8     a person must be a resident in the jurisdiction of the entity

 1-9     making the appointment.  [A member of a subregional board must be a

1-10     qualified voter residing in the authority.]

1-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

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.