By: Madla S.B. No. 1185
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the permissible number of commissioners of certain
1-2 public housing authorities.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 392.031, Local Government
1-5 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) Each municipal housing authority shall be governed by
1-7 five, seven, nine, or 11 commissioners. The presiding officer of
1-8 the governing body of a municipality shall appoint five, seven,
1-9 nine, or 11 persons to serve as commissioners of the authority. An
1-10 appointed commissioner of the authority may not be an officer or
1-11 employee of the municipality. Appointments made under this section
1-12 must comply with the requirements of Section 392.0331, if
1-13 applicable.
1-14 SECTION 2. Section 392.034, Local Government Code, is
1-15 amended to read as follows:
1-16 Sec. 392.034. Terms of Office of Commissioners. (a) Two of
1-17 the original commissioners of a [municipal or] county housing
1-18 authority shall be designated to serve one-year terms from the date
1-19 of their appointment, and three shall be designated to serve
1-20 two-year terms. Subsequent commissioners are appointed for
1-21 two-year terms.
1-22 (b)(1) The original commissioners of a municipal housing
1-23 authority shall serve terms as follows:
1-24 (A) for an authority with five commissioners,
2-1 two shall be designated to serve one-year terms and three shall be
2-2 designated to serve two-year terms;
2-3 (B) for an authority with seven commissioners,
2-4 three shall be designated to serve one-year terms and four shall be
2-5 designated to serve two-year terms;
2-6 (C) for an authority with nine commissioners,
2-7 four shall be designated to serve one-year terms and five shall be
2-8 designated to serve two-year terms; and
2-9 (D) for an authority with 11 commissioners, five
2-10 shall be designated to serve one-year terms and six shall be
2-11 designated to serve two-year terms.
2-12 (2) Subsequent municipal housing commissioners are
2-13 appointed for two-year terms.
2-14 (c) Commissioners of a regional housing authority are
2-15 appointed for two-year terms.
2-16 (d) [(c)] Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term.
2-17 SECTION 3. The presiding officer of the governing body of a
2-18 municipality entitled to make appointments to a municipal housing
2-19 authority under Section 392.031, Local Government Code, as amended
2-20 by this Act, shall make the appropriate appointments as soon as
2-21 practicable after the effective date of this Act.
2-22 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-23 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.