Bill Text: TX HB664 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to voting eligibility requirements for members of a metropolitan planning organization policy board.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-09 - Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar [HB664 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB664-Comm_Sub.html

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82R19222 AJZ-D
By: Larson H.B. No. 664
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 664:
By: McClendon C.S.H.B. No. 664

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to voting eligibility requirements for members of a
metropolitan planning organization policy board.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 472, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 472.035 to read as follows:
Sec. 472.035. POLICY BOARD MEMBER VOTING ELIGIBILITY IN
CERTAIN COUNTIES. To be eligible to be a voting member of a
metropolitan planning organization policy board that serves a
county with a population of more than 1.7 million and in which more
than 75 percent of the population resides in a single municipality,
a member must be an elected official or a member of the board of a
metropolitan rapid transit authority under Chapter 451.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.