1-1 By: Madla S.B. No. 1185
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1999; March 11, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; March 29, 1999, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; March 29, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the permissible number of commissioners of certain
1-9 public housing authorities.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 392.031, Local Government
1-12 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) Each municipal housing authority shall be governed by
1-14 five, seven, nine, or 11 commissioners. The presiding officer of
1-15 the governing body of a municipality shall appoint five, seven,
1-16 nine, or 11 persons to serve as commissioners of the authority. An
1-17 appointed commissioner of the authority may not be an officer or
1-18 employee of the municipality. Appointments made under this section
1-19 must comply with the requirements of Section 392.0331, if
1-20 applicable.
1-21 SECTION 2. Section 392.034, Local Government Code, is
1-22 amended to read as follows:
1-23 Sec. 392.034. Terms of Office of Commissioners. (a) Two of
1-24 the original commissioners of a [municipal or] county housing
1-25 authority shall be designated to serve one-year terms from the date
1-26 of their appointment, and three shall be designated to serve
1-27 two-year terms. Subsequent commissioners are appointed for
1-28 two-year terms.
1-29 (b)(1) The original commissioners of a municipal housing
1-30 authority shall serve terms as follows:
1-31 (A) for an authority with five commissioners,
1-32 two shall be designated to serve one-year terms and three shall be
1-33 designated to serve two-year terms;
1-34 (B) for an authority with seven commissioners,
1-35 three shall be designated to serve one-year terms and four shall be
1-36 designated to serve two-year terms;
1-37 (C) for an authority with nine commissioners,
1-38 four shall be designated to serve one-year terms and five shall be
1-39 designated to serve two-year terms; and
1-40 (D) for an authority with 11 commissioners, five
1-41 shall be designated to serve one-year terms and six shall be
1-42 designated to serve two-year terms.
1-43 (2) Subsequent municipal housing commissioners are
1-44 appointed for two-year terms.
1-45 (c) Commissioners of a regional housing authority are
1-46 appointed for two-year terms.
1-47 (d) [(c)] Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term.
1-48 SECTION 3. The presiding officer of the governing body of a
1-49 municipality entitled to make appointments to a municipal housing
1-50 authority under Section 392.031, Local Government Code, as amended
1-51 by this Act, shall make the appropriate appointments as soon as
1-52 practicable after the effective date of this Act.
1-53 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-54 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-55 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-56 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-57 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-58 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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