Bill Text: TX HB3167 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 3167 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the governing bodies of certain local planning organizations.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-25 - Committee report printed and distributed [HB3167 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB3167-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Simmons (Senate Sponsor - Perry)	H.B. No. 3167
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 2015;
	May 14, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
	Intergovernmental Relations; May 25, 2015, reported favorably by
	the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 25, 2015, sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the governing bodies of certain local planning
	organizations.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 391.006, Local Government Code, is
	amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (d) to
	read as follows:
	(c) The governing body of a commission of a region that is
	consistent with the geographic boundaries of a state planning
	region shall offer an ex officio, nonvoting membership on the
	governing body to each [a] member of the legislature who represents
	a district located wholly or partly in the region of the commission.
	(d) An ex officio member is not counted for purposes of
	determining a quorum.
	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, 2015.

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