By Gallego H.B. No. 1189
76R4533 CMR-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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:
1-9 (A) in each of two or more municipalities, if
1-10 the population of the county in which the proposed authority is
1-11 located is 15,000 or more; or
1-12 (B) in one municipality, if the population of
1-13 the county in which the proposed authority is located is less than
1-14 15,000;
1-15 (2) a description of the boundaries of the proposed
1-16 authority;
1-17 (3) the names of the persons recommended for the first
1-18 board of directors;
1-19 (4) a statement of the desirability of or need for the
1-20 creation of the authority; and
1-21 (5) the name of the proposed authority.
1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-23 applies only to a petition filed on or after that date. A petition
1-24 filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law
2-1 in effect on the date the petition was filed, and the former law is
2-2 continued in effect for that purpose.
2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.