Bill Text: TX HB2745 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the appointment of members to policy boards of certain metropolitan planning organizations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-13 - Referred to Transportation [HB2745 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2745-Introduced.html
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| By: Thompson of Brazoria | H.B. No. 2745 | |
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| relating to the appointment of members to policy boards of certain | ||
| metropolitan planning organizations. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 472, Transportation Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 472.037 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 472.037. APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS TO CERTAIN POLICY | ||
| BOARDS. (a) This section applies only to a metropolitan planning | ||
| organization that serves a county with a population of more than | ||
| four million. | ||
| (b) Counties served by a metropolitan planning organization | ||
| described by Subsection (a) shall appoint voting members to the | ||
| organization's policy board as follows: | ||
| (1) a county with a population of four million or more | ||
| shall appoint two members; | ||
| (2) a county with a population of less than four | ||
| million but more than 45,000 shall appoint one member; and | ||
| (3) a county with a population of 45,000 or less, | ||
| together with an adjacent county with a population of 45,000 or | ||
| less, shall jointly appoint one member. | ||
| (c) Municipalities served by a metropolitan planning | ||
| organization described by Subsection (a) shall appoint voting | ||
| members to the organization's policy board as follows: | ||
| (1) a municipality with a population of two million or | ||
| more shall appoint two members; and | ||
| (2) a municipality with a population of less than two | ||
| million but more than 25,000 shall appoint one member. | ||
| (d) The department shall appoint three members to the policy | ||
| board of a metropolitan planning organization described by | ||
| Subsection (a). | ||
| (e) A metropolitan transit authority or rail district | ||
| served by a metropolitan planning organization described by | ||
| Subsection (a) shall appoint one voting member to the | ||
| organization's policy board. | ||
| (f) A port authority located in a municipality with a | ||
| population of more than two million that is served by a metropolitan | ||
| planning organization described by Subsection (a) shall appoint one | ||
| voting member to the organization's policy board. | ||
| (g) The governor shall appoint two voting members to the | ||
| policy board of a metropolitan planning organization described by | ||
| Subsection (a). | ||
| (h) Each member of a policy board of a metropolitan planning | ||
| organization described by Subsection (a) is entitled to one vote. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
