77R11140 JAT-D
By Truitt, Smith, Marchant, Allen H.B. No. 2051
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2051:
By Alexander C.S.H.B. No. 2051
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the composition of joint boards governing certain
1-3 airports.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 22.074(a), Transportation Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (a) Public agencies acting jointly under this subchapter
1-8 shall create a joint board consisting of members appointed by the
1-9 governing authority of each participating public agency. The joint
1-10 agreement shall provide for the number to be appointed, not to
1-11 exceed 11, including those members appointed under Section 22.0745,
1-12 and the members' terms and compensation, if any. The joint board
1-13 shall organize, select officers for terms to be provided by the
1-14 agreement, and adopt rules for its own procedures.
1-15 SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 22, Transportation Code, is
1-16 amended by adding Section 22.0745 to read as follows:
1-17 Sec. 22.0745. NON-CONSTITUENT MUNICIPALITY REPRESENTATION ON
1-18 JOINT BOARD. (a) In this section, "non-constituent municipality"
1-19 means a municipality:
1-20 (1) all or part of which is located within the
1-21 geographic boundaries of an airport governed by a joint board for
1-22 which the constituent agencies are populous home-rule
1-23 municipalities; and
1-24 (2) that is not a constituent agency.
2-1 (b) A joint board for which the constituent agencies are
2-2 populous home-rule municipalities must include in its membership,
2-3 from each county that has territory within the airport's
2-4 boundaries, the chief executive officer of a non-constituent
2-5 municipality, appointed by the constituent agencies in accordance
2-6 with Section 22.074.
2-7 (c) A non-constituent municipality's chief executive officer
2-8 may not be appointed to a subsequent term until the chief executive
2-9 officer of each of the other non-constituent municipalities has
2-10 served an intervening term.
2-11 (d) The term of a chief executive officer appointed under
2-12 this section is the same as a member appointed by the governing
2-13 authority of a participating agency.
2-14 (e) A chief executive officer of a non-constituent
2-15 municipality serves without compensation but is entitled to
2-16 reimbursement for actual expenses incurred in the performance of
2-17 official joint board duties, subject to approval of the presiding
2-18 officer of the joint board.
2-19 SECTION 3. (a) Not later than October 1, 2001, public
2-20 agencies acting jointly under Chapter 22, Transportation Code,
2-21 shall:
2-22 (1) amend the joint-action agreement under Section
2-23 22.072, Transportation Code, to limit the number of joint board
2-24 members and to include in the board's membership chief executive
2-25 officers of the non-constituent municipalities, as defined by
2-26 Section 22.0745, Transportation Code, as added by this Act; and
2-27 (2) appoint to the joint board, from each county that
3-1 has territory within the boundaries of the airport, the chief
3-2 executive officer of the non-constituent municipality that has the
3-3 largest territory within the airport boundaries.
3-4 (b) This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.