By: Phillips H.B. No. 2219
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the public transportation advisory committee.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 455.004(a), (b), and (c),
  Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  A public transportation advisory committee consisting
  of nine [11] members shall:
               (1)  advise the commission on the needs and problems of
  the state's public transportation providers, including the methods
  for allocating state public transportation money;
               (2)  comment on rules involving public transportation
  during development of the rules and before the commission finally
  adopts the rules unless an emergency requires immediate commission
  action;
               (3)  advise the commission on the implementation of
  Chapter 461; [and]
               (4)  perform any other duty determined by the
  commission; and
               (5)  reflect the diversity of the state.
         (b)  The members [commission shall appoint members of the
  advisory committee.     The membership] of the committee shall be
  appointed by the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the speaker
  of the house of representatives, who shall each appoint [include]:
               (1)  one member [four members] who represents
  [represent] a diverse cross-section of public transportation
  providers;
               (2)  one member [three members] who represents
  [represent] a diverse cross-section of transportation users; and
               (3)  one member [three members] who represents
  [represent] the general public[; and
               [(4)     one member with experience in the administration
  of health and human services programs].
         (c)  A member serves at the pleasure of the officer who
  appointed the member [commission].  A member is not entitled to
  compensation for service on the committee but is entitled to
  reimbursement for reasonable expenses the member incurs in
  performing committee duties.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act to the public
  transportation advisory committee does not affect the entitlement
  of a member serving on the committee immediately before the
  effective date of this Act  to serve the remainder of the member's
  term.  The first two members whose positions expire or become vacant
  may not be replaced.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.