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.