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1	1	By: Deshotel (Senate Sponsor - Williams) H.B. No. 1251
2	2	(In the Senate - Received from the House March 31, 2011;
3	3	April 13, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on
4	4	Transportation and Homeland Security; May 9, 2011, reported
5	5	favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 9, 2011, sent
6	6	to printer.)
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9	9	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
10	10	AN ACT
11	11	relating to the election of the members of the Board of Port
12	12	Commissioners of the Port of Port Arthur Navigation District of
13	13	Jefferson County.
14	14	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
15	15	SECTION 1. Sections 9(a) and (c), Chapter 197, Acts of the
16	16	58th Legislature, Regular Session, 1963, are amended to read as
17	17	follows:
18	18	(a) The District shall hold an election in the District to
19	19	elect the appropriate number of port commissioners as required to
20	20	maintain a full Board of Port Commissioners on the uniform election
21	21	date in [first Saturday of] May in each odd-numbered year [at which
22	22	time there shall be elected five (5) Port Commissioners].
23	23	(c) Port [Except as provided by Subsection (d) of this
24	24	section, the] commissioners serve staggered six-year [four-year]
25	25	terms.
26	26	SECTION 2. (a) A port commissioner who on the effective
27	27	date of this Act serves on the Board of Port Commissioners of the
28	28	Port of Port Arthur Navigation District of Jefferson County shall
29	29	continue in office until a successor is elected and qualified.
30	30	(b) Port commissioners of the Port of Port Arthur Navigation
31	31	District of Jefferson County shall serve six-year terms of office
32	32	beginning with terms of port commissioners elected at the election
33	33	held in 2013, in accordance with Sections 9(a) and (c), Chapter 197,
34	34	Acts of the 58th Legislature, Regular Session, 1963, as amended by
35	35	this Act.
36	36	SECTION 3. (a) The legal notice of the intention to
37	37	introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this
38	38	Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a
39	39	copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies,
40	40	officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished
41	41	under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313,
42	42	Government Code.
43	43	(b) The governor, one of the required recipients, has
44	44	submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on
45	45	Environmental Quality.
46	46	(c) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed
47	47	its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, the
48	48	lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
49	49	representatives within the required time.
50	50	(d) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
51	51	state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
52	52	to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled
53	53	and accomplished.
54	54	SECTION 4. Except as provided by Section 2(b) of this Act,
55	55	this Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of
56	56	two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by
57	57	Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not
58	58	receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes
59	59	effect September 1, 2011.
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