By: ShelleyS.B. No. 821
(In the SenateFiled March10,1993; March15,1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations; March24,1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; March24,1993, sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE VOTE
Yea Nay PNV Absent
Armbrister x
Leedom x
Carriker x
Henderson x
Madla x
Moncrief x
Patterson x
Rosson x
Shapiro x
Wentworth x
Whitmire x
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 821By: Armbrister
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the number of consecutive years a person may serve on certain mass transit authority boards.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION1.Subsection (h), Section 6B, Chapter 141, Acts of the 63rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1118x, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
(h)A member of the board of an authority in which the principal city has a population of more than 1,200,000, according to the most recent federal census, serves a term of two years. A vacancy on a board subject to this subsection shall be filled by the agency that appointed the member whose position has become vacant for the remainder of the unexpired term. In the case of a vacancy in a position whose previous occupant was appointed by the mayor of the principal city and confirmed by that city's governing body, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment of the mayor and confirmation of the governing body. A person may not serve [a total of] more than 12 consecutive [eight] years[, whether or not consecutive,] on a board subject to this subsection, except as a holdover pending the qualification of a successor, and may not be appointed if, at the end of the term for which the person is being considered, the person's service would exceed this requirement.
SECTION2.The importance of this legislation and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.
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Austin, Texas
March24,1993
Hon. Bob Bullock
President of the Senate
Sir:
We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was referred S.B. No. 821, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do pass and be printed.
Armbrister, Chairman
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WITNESSES
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Name:Richard Evans x Representing:Senator Dan Shelley
City:Austin