By Lucio                                               S.B. No. 865
         76R7560 WP-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the authority to establish transportation advisory
 1-3     committees.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 201, Transportation Code,
 1-6     is amended by adding Section 201.113 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 201.113.  ADVISORY COMMITTEES.  (a)  The commission may
 1-8     establish advisory committees to advise the department on any
 1-9     matter under the jurisdiction of the department.
1-10           (b)  Section 2110.005, Government Code, does not apply to an
1-11     advisory committee established under this section if the advisory
1-12     committee is:
1-13                 (1)  established for a specific and immediate need; and
1-14                 (2)  dissolved before the first anniversary of the date
1-15     the committee is created.
1-16           (c)  A member of an advisory committee established under this
1-17     section may not receive compensation for serving on the committee,
1-18     but is entitled to reimbursement for reasonable expenses incurred
1-19     in performing the member's duties.
1-20           SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 361, Transportation Code,
1-21     is amended by adding Section 361.056 to read as follows:
1-22           Sec. 361.056.  ADVISORY COMMITTEES.  (a)  The board may
1-23     establish advisory committees to advise the authority on any matter
1-24     under the jurisdiction of the authority.
 2-1           (b)  Section 2110.005, Government Code, does not apply to an
 2-2     advisory committee established under this section if the advisory
 2-3     committee is:
 2-4                 (1)  established for a specific and immediate need; and
 2-5                 (2)  dissolved before the first anniversary of the date
 2-6     the committee is created.
 2-7           (c)  A member of an advisory committee established under this
 2-8     section may not receive compensation for serving on the committee,
 2-9     but is entitled to reimbursement for reasonable expenses incurred
2-10     in performing the member's duties.
2-11           SECTION 3.  Subchapter B, Texas Motor Vehicle Commission Code
2-12     (Article 4413(36), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
2-13     adding  Section 2.14 to read as follows:
2-14           Sec. 2.14.  ADVISORY COMMITTEES.  (a)  The board may
2-15     establish advisory committees to advise the board on any matter
2-16     under the jurisdiction of the board.
2-17           (b)  Section 2110.005, Government Code, does not apply to an
2-18     advisory committee established under this section if the advisory
2-19     committee is:
2-20                 (1)  established for a specific and immediate need; and
2-21                 (2)  dissolved before the first anniversary of the date
2-22     the committee is created.
2-23           (c)  A member of an advisory committee established under this
2-24     section may not receive compensation for serving on the committee,
2-25     but is entitled to reimbursement for reasonable expenses incurred
2-26     in performing the member's duties.
2-27           SECTION 4.  Article 4413(37), Revised Statutes, is amended by
 3-1     adding Section 12 to read as follows:
 3-2           Sec. 12.  ADVISORY COMMITTEES.  (a)  The authority may
 3-3     establish advisory committees the authority considers necessary and
 3-4     may determine the  appropriate membership for each committee.
 3-5           (b)  The authority shall specify:
 3-6                 (1)  the purpose and duties of any advisory committee
 3-7     established under this section; and
 3-8                 (2)  any project that a committee is required to
 3-9     develop.
3-10           (c)  Members of an advisory committee established under this
3-11     section serve at the will of the authority.  The authority may
3-12     dissolve an advisory committee when necessary.
3-13           (d)  Section 2110.005, Government Code, does not apply to an
3-14     advisory committee established under this section if the advisory
3-15     committee is:
3-16                 (1)  established for a specific and immediate need; and
3-17                 (2)  dissolved before the first anniversary of the date
3-18     the committee is created.
3-19           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
3-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-25     passage, and it is so enacted.