| |
| |
| |
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to circumstances under which a vacancy on the governing |
|
|
body occurs in certain municipalities. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Section 22.041, Local Government Code, is |
|
|
amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: |
|
|
(c) In addition to an absence described by Subsection (b), a |
|
|
member of a governing body is also considered absent for the |
|
|
purposes of that subsection if the member is not present at the |
|
|
adjournment of a meeting at which a quorum is established, unless |
|
|
the member is first allowed to withdraw by the unanimous vote of the |
|
|
members present. This subsection applies only to a municipality |
|
|
that is located in a county with a population of 800,000 or more |
|
|
that is adjacent to an international border. |
|
|
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only |
|
|
to a meeting held 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. |
| |
| |
| |
______________________________ |
______________________________ |
| |
President of the Senate |
Speaker of the House |
| |
| |
|
|
I certify that H.B. No. 2259 was passed by the House on May 1, |
|
|
2013, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 1 present, not |
|
|
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. |
|
|
No. 2259 on May 24, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, |
|
|
2 present, not voting. |
|
|
|
|
|
______________________________ |
|
|
Chief Clerk of the House |
| |
|
|
I certify that H.B. No. 2259 was passed by the Senate, with |
|
|
amendments, on May 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays |
|
|
0. |
|
|
|
|
|
______________________________ |
|
|
Secretary of the Senate |
|
|
APPROVED: __________________ |
|
|
Date |
|
|
|
|
|
__________________ |
|
|
Governor |