Requires the members of the governing body of a public transportation benefit area, if the population of the county in which the area is located is more than four hundred thousand and the county does not also contain a city with a population of seventy-five thousand or more operating a transit system, to be selected to assure proportional representation, based on population, of each of the component cities located within the area and the unincorporated areas of the county located within the area, to the extent possible within the restrictions placed on the size of the governing body of the area.

Requires the proportional representation requirements to be taken into consideration, when determining if a change to the composition of the governing body is appropriate, if: (1) The population of the county in which the public transportation benefit area is located is more than four hundred thousand;

(2) The county does not also contain a city with a population of seventy-five thousand or more operating a transit system; and

(3) The composition of the governing body must be changed if necessary to meet this requirement.