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. Subsection (b), Section 392.0331, Local
1-15 Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-16 (b) In appointing commissioners under Section 392.031, a
1-17 municipality with a municipal housing authority composed of five
1-18 commissioners shall appoint at least one commissioner to the [a
1-19 municipal housing] authority who is a tenant of a public housing
1-20 project over which the [municipal housing] authority has
1-21 jurisdiction. In appointing commissioners under Section 392.031, a
1-22 municipality with a municipal housing authority composed of seven
1-23 or more commissioners shall appoint at least two commissioners to
1-24 the authority who are tenants of a public housing project over
2-1 which the authority has jurisdiction.
2-2 SECTION 3. Section 392.034, Local Government Code, is
2-3 amended to read as follows:
2-4 Sec. 392.034. Terms of Office of Commissioners. (a) Two of
2-5 the original commissioners of a [municipal or] county housing
2-6 authority shall be designated to serve one-year terms from the date
2-7 of their appointment, and three shall be designated to serve
2-8 two-year terms. Subsequent commissioners are appointed for
2-9 two-year terms.
2-10 (b)(1) The original commissioners of a municipal housing
2-11 authority shall serve terms as follows:
2-12 (A) for an authority with five commissioners,
2-13 two shall be designated to serve one-year terms and three shall be
2-14 designated to serve two-year terms;
2-15 (B) for an authority with seven commissioners,
2-16 three shall be designated to serve one-year terms and four shall be
2-17 designated to serve two-year terms;
2-18 (C) for an authority with nine commissioners,
2-19 four shall be designated to serve one-year terms and five shall be
2-20 designated to serve two-year terms; and
2-21 (D) for an authority with 11 commissioners, five
2-22 shall be designated to serve one-year terms and six shall be
2-23 designated to serve two-year terms.
2-24 (2) Subsequent municipal housing commissioners are
2-25 appointed for two-year terms.
2-26 (c) Commissioners of a regional housing authority are
3-1 appointed for two-year terms.
3-2 (d) [(c)] Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term.
3-3 SECTION 4. The presiding officer of the governing body of a
3-4 municipality entitled to make appointments to a municipal housing
3-5 authority under Section 392.031, Local Government Code, as amended
3-6 by this Act, shall make the appropriate appointments as soon as
3-7 practicable after the effective date of this Act.
3-8 SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
3-9 SECTION 6. The importance of this legislation and the
3-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1185 passed the Senate on
April 8, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 27, 1999, by a
viva-voce vote.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1185 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 22, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor