By: Cortez, Alvarado, Naishtat H.B. No. 654
        (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa)
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2013;
  April 30, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Intergovernmental Relations; May 10, 2013, reported favorably by
  the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 10, 2013, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the ability of a tenant representative to serve as a
  commissioner of a local housing authority.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 392.0331(f) and (f-1), Local Government
  Code, are repealed.
         SECTION 2.  The repeal by this Act of Sections 392.0331(f)
  and (f-1), Local Government Code, applies to a commissioner
  appointed under Section 392.0331, Local Government Code, without
  regard to whether the commissioner was appointed before, on, or
  after the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  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, 2013.
 
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