85R27312 JRR-D
By: Workman H.B. No. 2627
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2627:
By: Morrison C.S.H.B. No. 2627
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the withdrawal of a unit of election from certain
metropolitan rapid transit authorities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 451.603(c), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) An election to withdraw may not be held [ordered, and a
petition for an election to withdraw may not be accepted for filing,
on or] before the first [fifth] anniversary of the first day of the
calendar month in which a [after the date of a] previous election to
withdraw [in] the unit of election [to withdraw] from the authority
was held.
SECTION 2. Section 451.607(c), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) At the election the ballot shall be printed to provide
for voting for or against the proposition: "Shall [the] (name of
unit of election [authority]) withdraw from the [be continued in]
(name of authority [unit of election])?"
SECTION 3. Section 451.608, Transportation Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 451.608. RESULT OF WITHDRAWAL ELECTION. (a) If a
majority of the votes received on the measure in an election held
under Section 451.607 favor the proposition, the [authority
continues in the] unit of election withdraws from the authority and
the authority ceases in the unit of election on the day after the
date the election results are canvassed.
(b) If less than a majority of the votes received on the
measure in the election favor the proposition, the authority
continues [ceases] in the unit of election [on the day after the day
the election returns are canvassed].
SECTION 4. 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, 2017.