Bill Text: TX SB1184 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the governance of a regional mobility authority.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-21 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB1184 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1184-Comm_Sub.html
84R30256 JTS-D | ||
By: Huffines, et al. | S.B. No. 1184 | |
(Burkett) | ||
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1184: No. |
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relating to the governance of a regional mobility authority. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 370.182, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
(c) The commissioners courts of counties and governing | ||
bodies of municipalities, as applicable, that participate in an | ||
authority may, by a resolution approved by a majority of the members | ||
of each of the commissioners courts or governing bodies, request an | ||
audit of the authority by the state auditor. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter F, Chapter 370, Transportation Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 370.2516 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 370.2516. ALTERNATIVE BOARD COMPOSITION: COUNTY | ||
COMMISSIONERS. As an alternative to the board composition under | ||
Section 370.251(a), the commissioners courts of the counties of an | ||
authority may, by a resolution approved by at least two-thirds of | ||
the members of each of the commissioners courts, establish a board | ||
of directors for the authority that is composed exclusively of | ||
county commissioners appointed by each of the commissioners courts. | ||
If a board is established under this section: | ||
(1) except as provided by Subdivision (2), the | ||
provisions of Section 370.251, other than Section 370.251(g)(1), | ||
apply to the directors; | ||
(2) the county commissioner directors shall choose a | ||
director from among the directors to serve as the presiding officer | ||
in lieu of the governor's appointee; and | ||
(3) Sections 370.2515, 370.252, 370.2521, 370.2522, | ||
370.2523, 370.253, 370.254, and 370.255 do not apply to the board. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |