1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the petition for creation of a civic center authority.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 281.013(c), Local Government Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (c) The petition must include:
1-7 (1) the signatures of a majority of the members of the
1-8 governing body of at least:
1-9 (A) one municipality, if the county in which the
1-10 proposed authority is located has only one municipality; or
1-11 (B) [in each of] two [or more] municipalities,
1-12 if the county in which the proposed authority is located has two or
1-13 more municipalities;
1-14 (2) a description of the boundaries of the proposed
1-15 authority;
1-16 (3) the names of the persons recommended for the first
1-17 board of directors;
1-18 (4) a statement of the desirability of or need for the
1-19 creation of the authority; and
1-20 (5) the name of the proposed authority.
1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-22 applies only to a petition filed on or after that date. A petition
1-23 filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law
1-24 in effect on the date the petition was filed, and the former law is
2-1 continued in effect for that purpose.
2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1189 was passed by the House on March
25, 1999, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in
Senate amendments to H.B. No. 1189 on May 5, 1999, by a non-record
vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1189 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 3, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor