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.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 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.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor