By Nelson                                              S.B. No. 882
         77R6227 JAT-D                           
                                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.  Subject
1-10     to Section 22.0745, the [The] joint agreement shall provide for the
1-11     number to be appointed and the members' terms and compensation, if
1-12     any. The joint board shall organize, select officers for terms to
1-13     be provided by the agreement, and adopt rules for its own
1-14     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     the chief executive officer of a non-constituent municipality
 2-4     appointed by the constituent agencies in accordance with Section
 2-5     22.074.
 2-6           (c)  A non-constituent municipality's chief executive officer
 2-7     may not be appointed to a subsequent term until each of the other
 2-8     non-constituent municipalities' chief executive officers has served
 2-9     an intervening term.
2-10           (d)  The term of a chief executive officer appointed under
2-11     this section is the same as a member appointed by the governing
2-12     authority of a participating agency.
2-13           SECTION 3. (a)  As soon as practicable after the effective
2-14     date of this Act, a joint board for which the constituent agencies
2-15     are populous home-rule municipalities shall appoint to the board a
2-16     chief executive officer of a non-constituent municipality, as that
2-17     term is defined by Section 22.0745, Transportation Code, as added
2-18     by this Act.
2-19           (b)  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.