By: Carona  S.B. No. 888
         (In the Senate - Filed February 23, 2011; March 1, 2011,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and
  Homeland Security; March 24, 2011, reported favorably by the
  following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 24, 2011, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the authority of a regional transportation authority to
  create a local government corporation.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subdivision (3), Section 431.003,
  Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:
               (3)  "Local government" means:
                     (A)  a municipality;
                     (B)  a county; or
                     (C)  for purposes of Subchapter D, a navigation
  district, hospital district, or hospital authority, or a regional
  transportation authority as described by Section 452.001.
         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, 2011.
 
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