| 1 | 1 | | By: Hegar S.B. No. 987 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (Kleinschmidt) |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to the term of office and qualifications for a director of |
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| 8 | 8 | | the Colorado County Groundwater Conservation District. |
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| 9 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 10 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 8824.051, Special |
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| 11 | 11 | | District Local Laws Code, is amended to read as follows: |
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| 12 | 12 | | (c) A director may serve only two full consecutive terms in |
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| 13 | 13 | | the same position. |
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| 14 | 14 | | SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 8824.052, Special |
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| 15 | 15 | | District Local Laws Code, is amended to read as follows: |
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| 16 | 16 | | (a) Except as provided by Subsection (e), the directors of |
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| 17 | 17 | | the district shall be elected as follows: |
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| 18 | 18 | | (1) the directors for positions 1 through 4 must |
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| 19 | 19 | | reside in Colorado County Commissioners Precincts 1 through 4, |
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| 20 | 20 | | respectively, and are elected by the voters of the applicable |
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| 21 | 21 | | county commissioners precinct; and |
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| 22 | 22 | | (2) the directors for positions 5 through 7 must |
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| 23 | 23 | | reside in Colorado County [the cities of Columbus, Eagle Lake, and |
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| 24 | 24 | | Weimar, respectively,] and are elected at large by the voters of the |
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| 25 | 25 | | district. |
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| 26 | 26 | | SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act does not |
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| 27 | 27 | | affect the term of a member of the board of directors of the |
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| 28 | 28 | | Colorado County Groundwater Conservation District serving on the |
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| 29 | 29 | | effective date of this Act. A director appointed to fill a vacancy |
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| 30 | 30 | | occurring on or after the effective date of this Act must be |
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| 31 | 31 | | appointed in accordance with Subsection (c), Section 8824.051, and |
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| 32 | 32 | | Subsection (a), Section 8824.052, Special District Local Laws Code, |
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| 33 | 33 | | as amended by this Act. |
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| 34 | 34 | | SECTION 4. (a) The legal notice of the intention to |
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| 35 | 35 | | introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this |
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| 36 | 36 | | Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a |
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| 37 | 37 | | copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies, |
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| 38 | 38 | | officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished |
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| 39 | 39 | | under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313, |
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| 40 | 40 | | Government Code. |
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| 41 | 41 | | (b) The governor, one of the required recipients, has |
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| 42 | 42 | | submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on |
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| 43 | 43 | | Environmental Quality. |
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| 44 | 44 | | (c) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed |
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| 45 | 45 | | its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, the |
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| 46 | 46 | | lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of |
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| 47 | 47 | | representatives within the required time. |
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| 48 | 48 | | (d) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this |
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| 49 | 49 | | state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect |
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| 50 | 50 | | to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled |
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| 51 | 51 | | and accomplished. |
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| 52 | 52 | | SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 53 | 53 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 54 | 54 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 55 | 55 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 56 | 56 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |
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