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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