By: Hancock S.B. No. 1837
(In the Senate - Filed March 18, 2013; March 20, 2013, read
first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
Relations; April 11, 2013, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 11, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the appointment of directors for the Viridian Municipal
Management District.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 3861.052, Special District Local Laws
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 3861.052. APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTORS [ELECTION DATE].
The mayor and members of the governing body of the city shall
appoint directors. A person is appointed if the majority of those
members and the mayor vote to appoint that person [The board shall
hold elections for directors on the uniform election date in May in
even-numbered years].
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act do not affect
the entitlement of a director serving on the board of directors of
the Viridian Municipal Management District immediately before the
effective date of this Act to continue to carry out the board's
functions for the remainder of the director's term. As the
directors' terms expire, the mayor and members of the governing
body of the city shall replace the elected directors beginning with
the directors whose terms expire May 31, 2014.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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