84R7599 TSR-F
By: Murr H.B. No. 1207
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the election dates for directors of the Bandera County
River Authority and Groundwater District.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 654, Acts of the 71st Legislature,
Regular Session, 1989, is amended by adding Section 1A and amending
Section 10 to read as follows:
Sec. 1A. REFERENCE IN LAW MEANING BANDERA COUNTY RIVER
AUTHORITY AND GROUNDWATER DISTRICT. The district name is the
Bandera County River Authority and Groundwater District. A
reference in law to the Springhills Water Management District means
the Bandera County River Authority and Groundwater District.
Sec. 10. ELECTION OF DIRECTORS. (a) Directors serve
staggered four-year terms.
(b) Every two years [On the first Saturday in May of the
second year after the year in which the district is authorized to be
created at a confirmation election,] an election shall be held in
the district on the uniform election date in November for the
election of the appropriate number of directors. Two directors
shall be elected from each commissioner precinct and one director
shall be elected at large. The director elected from each
commissioner precinct who receives the fewer number of votes shall
serve a two-year term, and the director elected from each
commissioner precinct who receives the most votes and the director
elected at large shall serve a four-year term. Thereafter, on the
same date in each subsequent second year, the appropriate number of
directors shall be elected to the board.
SECTION 2. The term of a director elected to the board of
the Bandera County River Authority and Groundwater District in May
2013 expires on December 1, 2016, and the term of a director elected
to the board in May 2015 expires December 1, 2018.
SECTION 3. (a) The legislature finds that the Bandera
County River Authority and Groundwater District was originally
created by Chapter 629, Acts of the 62nd Legislature, Regular
Session, 1971, as the Bandera County River Authority, and then
modified or merged by Chapter 654, Acts of the 71st Legislature,
Regular Session, 1989, as the Springhills Water Management
District.
(b) The legislature further finds that the Springhills
Water Management District was renamed the Bandera County River
Authority and Groundwater District in 2003.
SECTION 4. (a) The legal notice of the intention to
introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this
Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a
copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies,
officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished
under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313,
Government Code.
(b) The governor has submitted the notice and Act to the
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
(c) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed
its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, the
lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
representatives within the required time.
(d) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled
and accomplished.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.