By Hilderbran H.B. No. 3621 76R6878 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the refund of surplus revenue by certain metropolitan 1-3 rapid transit authorities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 451, Transportation Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 451.421 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 451.421. REFUND OF REVENUE: CERTAIN AUTHORITIES. (a) 1-8 An authority governed by a board appointed under Section 451.5021 1-9 shall, at the end of each fiscal year of the authority, distribute 1-10 to the municipalities and counties that comprise the authority all 1-11 revenue of the authority that exceeds the expenses of the authority 1-12 for that year. 1-13 (b) The distribution shall be apportioned on the basis of 1-14 the ratio that the population of each municipality or the 1-15 unincorporated area of each county bears to the total population of 1-16 the authority. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.