SRC-SEW S.B. 882 77(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 882
77R6227 JAT-DBy: Nelson
Intergovernmental Relations
3/13/2001
As Filed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Currently, the Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) Airport Board of Directors is
composed of 11 members, seven from Dallas and four from Forth Worth.  DFW
Airport does not occupy any land within the city limits of Dallas or Fort
Worth, but is within the city limits of Grapevine, Coppell, Irving, and
Euless, the "host cities."  As proposed, S.B. 882 restructures the DFW
Airport Board of Directors by providing these four host cities with a
rotating single position on the board.  This position on the board enables
the host cities to be advised of and participate in DFW Airport's operation
decisions and development plans. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a
state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 22.074(a), Transportation Code, to require the
joint agreement, subject to Section 22.0745, to provide for the number of
members to be appointed to the joint board and the members' terms and
compensation, if any. 

SECTION 2.  Amends Chapter 22D, Transportation Code, by adding Section
22.0745, as follows:   

Sec. 22.0745.  NON-CONSTITUENT MUNICIPALITY REPRESENTATION ON JOINT BOARD.
(a) Defines "non-constituent municipality."   

(b) Requires a joint board for which the constituent agencies are populous
home-rule municipalities to include in its membership the chief executive
officer of a nonconstituent municipality appointed by the constituent
agencies in accordance with Section 22.074.   

(c) Prohibits a non-constituent municipality's chief executive officer from
being appointed to a subsequent term until each of the other
non-constituent municipalities' chief executive officers has served an
intervening term. 

(d) Provides that the term of a chief executive officer appointed under
this section is the same as a member appointed by the governing authority
of a participating agency. 

SECTION 3.  (a) Requires that, as soon as practicable after the effective
date of this Act, a joint board for which the constituent agencies are
populous home-rule municipalities appoint to the board a chief executive
officer of a non-constituent municipality, as that term is defined by
Section 22.0745, Transportation Code, as added by this Act. 

  (b) Effective date:  September 1, 2001.