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Amend proposed CSHB 300, in ARTICLE ____ of the bill, by
adding the following SECTIONS, appropriately numbered, and
renumbering existing SECTIONS in ARTICLE ____ accordingly:
SECTION ____. Chapter 472, Transportation Code, is amended
by adding a new section 472.01355 to read as follows:
Sec. 472.03155. POLICY BOARD MEMBERSHIP AND VOTING
REQUIREMENTS IN POPULOUS COUNTIES; ELIGIBILITY FOR STATE
ALLOCATION OF FUNDING. (a) This section applies only to a
metropolitan planning organization that serves a county with a
population of 3.3 million or more.
(b) To be eligible to receive funds from this state for
transportation projects under Section 201.668:
(1) at least 50 percent of a metropolitan planning
organization's policy board members must be elected officials who
are elected in the boundaries of the metropolitan planning
organization; and
(2) except as provided in Section 472.03166, only
elected officials may be voting members of the organization's
policy board.
(c) A metropolitan planning organization that is not
eligible under Subsection (b) may redesignate the board so as to
become eligible to receive an allocation of funds under Section
201.668.
(d) In this section, "elected official" means the presiding
officer or a member of the governing body of a municipality, a
county judge, a county commissioner, a state representative, or a
state senator.
SECTION ____. Chapter 472, Transportation Code, is amended
by adding a new section 472.01366 to read as follows:
Sec. 472.03166. REPRESENTATION IN POPULOUS COUNTIES AND
CITIES. For a metropolitan planning organization that serves a
county with a population of 3.3 million or more, the counties and
municipalities of that metropolitan planning organization may
designate one or more non-elected officials to serve on the policy
board and such persons may be provided voting membership. If the
metropolitan area of such metropolitan planning organization is
served by authorities or other agencies that have been or may be
created by law to perform transportation functions and are
performing transportation functions, the authorities or other
agencies may be provided voting membership on the policy board
regardless of whether the authorities or agencies are also under
the jurisdiction of a municipality or county represented on the
metropolitan planning organization.