By Wilson H.B. No. 1871 76R4857 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to continued commercial air service at municipal airports. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 22, Transportation Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 22.902 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 22.902. CONTINUED SERVICE INTO MUNICIPAL AIRPORT. (a) 1-7 A municipality that operates an airport shall allow each commercial 1-8 airline that serves the airport the option to continue service to 1-9 that airport if the municipality opens a new airport that is 1-10 farther from the central business district of the municipality than 1-11 the existing airport. 1-12 (b) If a commercial airline elects to continue providing 1-13 service to an airport as provided by Subsection (a), the 1-14 municipality shall continue to operate that airport. 1-15 SECTION 2. Section 22.902, Transportation Code, as added by 1-16 this Act, applies only in relation to the opening of a new airport 1-17 by a municipality on or after January 1, 1999. 1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.