By: Phillips (Senate Sponsor - Williams) H.B. No. 2219
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2009;
May 1, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation and Homeland Security; May 11, 2009, reported
favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 11, 2009, sent
to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the public transportation advisory committee.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 455.004(a), (b), and (c),
Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) A public transportation advisory committee consisting
of nine [11] members shall:
(1) advise the commission on the needs and problems of
the state's public transportation providers, including the methods
for allocating state public transportation money;
(2) comment on rules involving public transportation
during development of the rules and before the commission finally
adopts the rules unless an emergency requires immediate commission
action;
(3) advise the commission on the implementation of
Chapter 461; [and]
(4) perform any other duty determined by the
commission; and
(5) reflect the diversity of the state.
(b) The members [commission shall appoint members of the
advisory committee. The membership] of the committee shall be
appointed by the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the speaker
of the house of representatives, who shall each appoint [include]:
(1) one member [four members] who represents
[represent] a diverse cross-section of public transportation
providers;
(2) one member [three members] who represents
[represent] a diverse cross-section of transportation users; and
(3) one member [three members] who represents
[represent] the general public[; and
[(4) one member with experience in the administration
of health and human services programs].
(c) A member serves at the pleasure of the officer who
appointed the member [commission]. A member is not entitled to
compensation for service on the committee but is entitled to
reimbursement for reasonable expenses the member incurs in
performing committee duties.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to the public
transportation advisory committee does not affect the entitlement
of a member serving on the committee immediately before the
effective date of this Act to serve the remainder of the member's
term. The first two members whose positions expire or become vacant
may not be replaced.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
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