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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