1-1     By:  Naishtat, Gray (Senate Sponsor - Jackson)        H.B. No. 1149
 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
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; April 29, 1999, reported favorably by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; April 29, 1999, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to the ability of tenant representatives to serve a
1-10     certain number of consecutive terms as commissioners of local
1-11     housing authorities.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 392.0331(f), Local Government Code, is
1-14     amended to read as follows:
1-15           (f)  A commissioner appointed under this section may not
1-16     serve more than two [be reappointed to] consecutive two-year terms.
1-17           SECTION 2.  Section 392.0331(f), Local Government Code, as
1-18     amended by this Act, applies to a commissioner appointed under
1-19     Section 392.0331, Local Government Code, without regard to whether
1-20     the commissioner was appointed on, before, or after the effective
1-21     date of this Act.
1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-27     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-28     passage, and it is so enacted.
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