By Krusee H.B. No. 236
76R1360 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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 having territory [any portion of which is]
2-6 located:
2-7 (i) wholly outside the principal county;
2-8 and
2-9 (ii) wholly or partly in the 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.