HBA-DMH H.B. 1718 77(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 1718
By: Davis, Yvonne
Transportation
2/27/2001
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Under current law, appointments to the board of directors of the North
Texas Tollway Authority are made by the governor and the commissioners
court of each of the four counties in which the turnpike project is
located.  Because the governor makes three of the seven appointments, the
governor has greater appointment authority than the commissioners court of
each county.  House Bill 1718 requires the governor to make one appointment
to the board of directors of a regional tollway authority, and requires the
commissioners courts of the counties of the authority to make the remaining
appointments. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

ANALYSIS

House Bill 1718 amends the Transportation Code to reduce from three to one
the number of directors the governor appoints to the board of directors of
a regional tollway authority.  The one director appointed by the governor
must have resided for at least one year in a county outside the authority
that is adjacent to a county of the authority.  The bill sets forth
provisions for the manner in which the remaining appointments are to be
made by a commissioners court of a county of the authority.  

EFFECTIVE DATE

September 1, 2001.