H.B. 1883 78(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


H.B. 1883
By: Baxter
Transportation
 Committee Report (Unamended)



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Currently there is no statutory authority for members serving on a
metropolitan planning organization to appoint a voting proxy to act in
their absence on matters before the policy board. H.B. 1883 authorizes a
policy board of a metropolitan planning organization designated or
redesignated under 23 U.S.C. Section 134 to provide in its bylaws for
appointment of voting proxies by its members. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any
additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or
institution. 

ANALYSIS

HB 1883 amends Chapter 472, Transportation Code, by adding Subchapter D,
to authorize a policy board of a metropolitan planning organization
designated or redesignated under 23 U.S.C. Section 134 to provide in its
bylaws for appointment of voting proxies by its members.  A proxy
appointed under Subsection (a): acts on behalf of and under the
supervision of the policy board member who appointed the proxy; must be
appointed in writing; and is authorized to vote for the policy board
member who appointed the proxy to the extent the member has given the
proxy the member's voting power. 

EFFECTIVE DATE

Upon passage, or if the Act does not receive the necessary vote, the Act
takes effect September 1, 2003.