By:  Madla                                            S.B. No. 1185
         99S0725/1                           
                                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.