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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