By Brown                                               S.B. No. 885
         76R7149 CBH-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to arbitration of a decision of a transit authority
 1-3     relating to financing of a venue project.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 334.0236, Local Government Code, is
 1-6     amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (e) to
 1-7     read as follows:
 1-8           (c)  If the authority again determines that implementation
 1-9     will have a significant negative impact on the authority's ability
1-10     to provide services or will impair an existing contract, the
1-11     written analysis required under Subsection (b) must include
1-12     additional information on how to change the resolution so that
1-13     implementation will not have a significant negative impact on the
1-14     authority's ability to provide services and will not impair an
1-15     existing contract.  The municipality or county may resubmit the
1-16     resolution or may submit the matter for binding arbitration under
1-17     Chapter 171, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, and in accordance
1-18     with Subsection (e).
1-19           (e)  Arbitration of a matter submitted under Subsection (c)
1-20     must be conducted by a board of three arbitrators.  The
1-21     municipality or county shall appoint one arbitrator.  The transit
1-22     authority shall appoint one arbitrator.  The arbitrators appointed
1-23     by the municipality or county and the transit authority shall
1-24     appoint the third arbitrator.  The municipality or county and the
 2-1     transit authority shall each pay its own expenses and shall equally
 2-2     pay the arbitrator fees and costs.
 2-3           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-8     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-9     passage, and it is so enacted.