By Armbrister S.B. No. 298
76R4312 WP-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to withdrawal of a unit from a rapid transit authority.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 451.617, Transportation Code, is amended
1-5 by amending Subsections (a) and (e) and adding Subsection (f) to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) In an authority created before 1980 in which the
1-8 principal municipality has a population of 750,000 or more [less
1-9 than 1.2 million], a unit of election, other than the principal
1-10 municipality, may withdraw from the authority, in addition to any
1-11 other manner provided by law, by a vote of a majority of the
1-12 registered voters of the unit of election voting at an election on
1-13 the question of withdrawing from the authority.
1-14 (e) Except as provided in Subsection (f), an [An] election
1-15 may not be held under this section on a date earlier than the first
1-16 anniversary of the date of the most recent election held under this
1-17 section.
1-18 (f) In an authority created before 1980 in which the
1-19 principal municipality has a population greater than 1.6 million,
1-20 an election may not be held under this section on a date earlier
1-21 than the sixth anniversary of the date of the most recent election
1-22 held under this section.
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.