1-1 By: Gallego (Senate Sponsor - Madla) H.B. No. 1189
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 23, 1999, reported adversely,
1-5 with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4,
1-6 Nays 0; April 23, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1189 By: Madla
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the petition for creation of a civic center authority.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 281.013(c), Local Government Code, is
1-13 amended to read as follows:
1-14 (c) The petition must include:
1-15 (1) the signatures of a majority of the members of the
1-16 governing body of at least:
1-17 (A) one municipality, if the county in which the
1-18 proposed authority is located has only one municipality; or
1-19 (B) [in each of] two [or more] municipalities,
1-20 if the county in which the proposed authority is located has two or
1-21 more municipalities;
1-22 (2) a description of the boundaries of the proposed
1-23 authority;
1-24 (3) the names of the persons recommended for the first
1-25 board of directors;
1-26 (4) a statement of the desirability of or need for the
1-27 creation of the authority; and
1-28 (5) the name of the proposed authority.
1-29 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-30 applies only to a petition filed on or after that date. A petition
1-31 filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law
1-32 in effect on the date the petition was filed, and the former law is
1-33 continued in effect for that purpose.
1-34 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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