By Lindsay S.B. No. 954
75R6605 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the number of members on the board of certain
1-3 metropolitan transit authorities.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 451.501, Transportation Code, is amended
1-6 by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (g) to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a board is
1-9 composed of:
1-10 (1) five members; plus
1-11 (2) the number of additional members determined under
1-12 Subsection (c), (d), [or] (e), or (g).
1-13 (g) In an authority having a principal municipality with a
1-14 population of more than 1.2 million, regardless of the percentage
1-15 of the population of the principal county that resides in the
1-16 authority, the board has six additional members.
1-17 SECTION 2. Section 451.502, Transportation Code, is amended
1-18 by amending Subsection (e) and adding Subsection (f) to read as
1-19 follows:
1-20 (e) In an authority having six additional members, other
1-21 than an authority that has a principal municipality with a
1-22 population of more than 1.2 million, the additional members are
1-23 appointed as follows:
1-24 (1) two members appointed by a panel composed of:
2-1 (A) the mayors of the municipalities in the
2-2 authority, excluding the mayor of the principal municipality; and
2-3 (B) the county judges of the counties having
2-4 unincorporated area in the authority, excluding the county judge of
2-5 the principal county;
2-6 (2) three members appointed by the commissioners court
2-7 of the principal county; and
2-8 (3) one member, who serves as presiding officer of the
2-9 board, appointed by a majority of the board.
2-10 (f) In an authority that has a principal municipality with a
2-11 population of more than 1.2 million, the additional members are
2-12 appointed as follows:
2-13 (1) three members appointed by a panel composed of:
2-14 (A) the mayors of the municipalities in the
2-15 authority, excluding the mayor of the principal municipality; and
2-16 (B) the county judges of the counties having
2-17 unincorporated area in the authority, excluding the county judge of
2-18 the principal county; and
2-19 (2) three members appointed by the commissioners court
2-20 of the principal county.
2-21 SECTION 3. The governmental entities entitled to make
2-22 appointments to a board of an authority under Section 451.502(f),
2-23 Transportation Code, as added by this Act, shall make the initial
2-24 appointments as soon as practicable after the effective date of
2-25 this Act.
2-26 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-27 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
3-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.