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1	1	82R3974 KYF-F
2	2	By: Gallego H.B. No. 1177
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to the election of members of the board of directors of the
8	8	Middle Pecos Groundwater Conservation District.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Section 8, Chapter 1299, Acts of the 77th
11	11	Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, is amended to read as follows:
12	12	Sec. 8. ELECTION OF DIRECTORS. On the uniform election date
13	13	in November [first Saturday in May] of each [the first]
14	14	even-numbered year [after the year in which the district is
15	15	authorized to be created at a confirmation election and on the first
16	16	Saturday in May of each subsequent second year], an election shall
17	17	be held in the district to elect the appropriate number of
18	18	directors.
19	19	SECTION 2. A director of the board of the Middle Pecos
20	20	Groundwater Conservation District who is serving on the day before
21	21	the effective date of this Act shall serve until the director's term
22	22	expires. A director whose term expires in May 2012 shall continue
23	23	to serve until the director's successor has qualified following the
24	24	directors' election held on the uniform election date in November
25	25	2012 in accordance with Section 8, Chapter 1299, Acts of the 77th
26	26	Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, as amended by this Act. A
27	27	director whose term expires in May 2014 shall continue to serve
28	28	until the director's successor has qualified following the
29	29	directors' election held on the uniform election date in November
30	30	2014.
31	31	SECTION 3. (a) All governmental acts and proceedings of the
32	32	Middle Pecos Groundwater Conservation District relating to the
33	33	election of members of the board of directors of the district that
34	34	were taken before the effective date of this Act are validated,
35	35	ratified, and confirmed in all respects as if they had been taken as
36	36	authorized by law.
37	37	(b) This section does not apply to any matter that on the
38	38	effective date of this Act:
39	39	(1) is involved in litigation if the litigation
40	40	ultimately results in the matter being held invalid by a final court
41	41	judgment; or
42	42	(2) has been held invalid by a final court judgment.
43	43	SECTION 4. (a) The legal notice of the intention to
44	44	introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this
45	45	Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a
46	46	copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies,
47	47	officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished
48	48	under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313,
49	49	Government Code.
50	50	(b) The governor, one of the required recipients, has
51	51	submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on
52	52	Environmental Quality.
53	53	(c) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed
54	54	its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, the
55	55	lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
56	56	representatives within the required time.
57	57	(d) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
58	58	state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
59	59	to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled
60	60	and accomplished.
61	61	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
62	62	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
63	63	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
64	64	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
65	65	Act takes effect September 1, 2011.