By: Castro (Senate Sponsor - Van de Putte) H.B. No. 2715

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 2007; May 10, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security; May 16, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 16, 2007, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the enforcement of the fares and other charges imposed by certain metropolitan rapid transit authorities.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 451.0611, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:

(g) An authority created before 1980 in which the principal municipality has a population of less than 1.2 million may allow peace officers of another political subdivision serving under a contract with the authority to enforce a resolution passed by a board under this section.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2007.

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