1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the composition of the board of directors of certain
 1-3     metropolitan rapid transit authorities.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 451.5021, Transportation Code, is amended
 1-6     by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (g) to read as
 1-7     follows:    
 1-8           (b)  The board is composed of seven members who are appointed
 1-9     as follows:
1-10                 (1)  two members representing the general public
1-11     appointed by the metropolitan planning organization designated by
1-12     the governor that serves the area of the authority;
1-13                 (2)  two members appointed by the governing body of the
1-14     principal municipality;
1-15                 (3)  one member appointed by the commissioners court of
1-16     the principal county;
1-17                 (4)  one member appointed by a panel composed of the
1-18     mayors of all the municipalities in the authority located in the
1-19     principal county of the authority, excluding the mayor of the
1-20     principal municipality; and
1-21                 (5)  one member appointed by a panel composed of:
1-22                       (A)  the mayors of all municipalities in the
1-23     authority located outside the principal county of the authority,
1-24     excluding the mayor of the principal municipality;
 2-1                       (B)  the county judges of the counties having
 2-2     unincorporated area in the authority, excluding the county judge of
 2-3     the principal county; and
 2-4                       (C)  the presiding officer of each municipal
 2-5     utility district that:
 2-6                             (i)  has a majority of its territory [any
 2-7     portion of which is] located outside the principal county; and
 2-8                             (ii)  is located wholly or partly in the
 2-9     authority.
2-10           (g)  This section continues to apply to a board the
2-11     composition of which was determined under this section,
2-12     notwithstanding a  change in the method of electing the members of
2-13     the governing body of the principal municipality.
2-14           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-20     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 236 was passed by the House on March
         25, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 236 was passed by the Senate on March
         26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor