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By:  Lucio, Hinojosa                                              S.B. No. 409


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the membership of the Texas Transportation Commission.            
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsections (a) and (b), Section 201.051, 
Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(a)  The Texas Transportation Commission consists of five 
[three] members appointed by the governor with the advice and 
consent of the senate.
	(b)  The members shall be appointed from different regions of 
the state [One member must reside in a rural area].
	SECTION 2.  Section 201.052, Transportation Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	Sec. 201.052.  TERMS.  Members of the commission serve 
staggered six-year terms, with the terms of either one or two 
members [one member's term] expiring February 1 of each 
odd-numbered year.
	SECTION 3.  Promptly after this Act takes effect, the 
governor shall appoint two additional members to the Texas 
Transportation Commission.  Of those members, the governor shall 
designate one to serve a term expiring February 1, 2007, and one to 
serve a term expiring February 1, 2009.
	SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.