1-1 By: Krusee (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth) H.B. No. 236
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 1999;
1-3 March 30, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the composition of the board of directors of certain
1-9 metropolitan rapid transit authorities.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 451.5021, Transportation Code, is amended
1-12 by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (g) to read as
1-13 follows:
1-14 (b) The board is composed of seven members who are appointed
1-15 as follows:
1-16 (1) two members representing the general public
1-17 appointed by the metropolitan planning organization designated by
1-18 the governor that serves the area of the authority;
1-19 (2) two members appointed by the governing body of the
1-20 principal municipality;
1-21 (3) one member appointed by the commissioners court of
1-22 the principal county;
1-23 (4) one member appointed by a panel composed of the
1-24 mayors of all the municipalities in the authority located in the
1-25 principal county of the authority, excluding the mayor of the
1-26 principal municipality; and
1-27 (5) one member appointed by a panel composed of:
1-28 (A) the mayors of all municipalities in the
1-29 authority located outside the principal county of the authority,
1-30 excluding the mayor of the principal municipality;
1-31 (B) the county judges of the counties having
1-32 unincorporated area in the authority, excluding the county judge of
1-33 the principal county; and
1-34 (C) the presiding officer of each municipal
1-35 utility district that:
1-36 (i) has a majority of its territory [any
1-37 portion of which is] located outside the principal county; and
1-38 (ii) is located wholly or partly in the
1-39 authority.
1-40 (g) This section continues to apply to a board the
1-41 composition of which was determined under this section,
1-42 notwithstanding a change in the method of electing the members of
1-43 the governing body of the principal municipality.
1-44 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-45 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-46 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-47 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-48 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-49 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-50 passage, and it is so enacted.
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