By: Watson, Nelson	S.B. No. 276
	(In the Senate - Filed January 28, 2013; February 5, 2013,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
	March 11, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
	Nays 0; March 11, 2013, sent to printer.)

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the authority of certain transportation authorities to
	create a local government corporation.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Subdivision (3), Section 431.003,
	Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(3)  "Local government" means:
	(A)  a municipality;
	(B)  a county; or
	(C)  for purposes of Subchapter D:
	(i)  [,] a navigation district, hospital
	district, or hospital authority;
	(ii)  [, or] a regional transportation
	authority governed by Chapter 452;
	(iii)  a rapid transit authority governed by
	Chapter 451; or
	(iv)  a coordinated county transportation
	authority governed by Chapter 460 [as described by Section
	452.001].
	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, 2013.
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