84R2694 KJE-F
By: Krause H.B. No. 648
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the appointment of directors to the board of directors
for the Viridian Municipal Management District.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 3861.051, Special District Local Laws
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 3861.051. GOVERNING BODY; TERMS. The district is
governed by a board of five directors who serve staggered terms of
four years[, with two or three directors' terms expiring May 31 of
each even-numbered year].
SECTION 2. Section 3861.052, Special District Local Laws
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 3861.052. APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTORS; VACANCY [ELECTION
DATE]. (a) The mayor and members of the governing body of the city
shall appoint directors from persons recommended by the board. A
person is appointed if a majority of members and the mayor vote to
appoint that person.
(b) A vacancy on the board shall be filled for the remainder
of the unexpired term in the same manner as the original
appointment. [The board shall hold elections for directors on the
uniform election date in May in even-numbered years.]
SECTION 3. Section 3861.203, Special District Local Laws
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 3861.203. APPOINTMENT [ELECTION] OF DIRECTORS OF NEW
DISTRICTS. (a) Not later than the 90th day after the date of an
election in favor of the division of the district, the mayor and
members of the governing body of the city [board] shall:
(1) appoint [itself as] the board of the original
district as the board of one of the new districts; and
(2) appoint five directors for each of the other new
districts in the manner prescribed by Section 3861.052.
(b) Directors appointed under Subsection (a)(1) serve the
remainder of the [staggered] terms to which they were appointed
[elected] in the original district. Notwithstanding Section
3861.053, a director appointed under Subsection (a)(1) is eligible
to serve only if the director owns land inside the area described by
the boundaries of the original district.
(c) The mayor and members of the governing body of the city
shall designate the initial terms of the directors appointed to
each board under Subsection (a)(2) so that:
(1) two of the directors serve a two-year term; and
(2) three of the directors serve a four-year term
[Directors appointed under Subsection (a)(2) serve until the
election for directors under Subsection (c)].
[(c) On the uniform election date in May of the first
even-numbered year after the year in which the directors are
appointed, the appointed board shall hold an election to elect five
directors in each district for which directors were appointed under
Subsection (a)(2). The directors shall draw lots to determine
which two shall serve until the next regularly scheduled election
of directors and which three shall serve until the second regularly
scheduled election of directors.]
SECTION 4. Section 3861.054, Special District Local Laws
Code, is repealed.
SECTION 5. (a) A member of a board of directors who was
elected under Section 3861.052 or 3861.203, Special District Local
Laws Code, or appointed to fill a vacancy under Section 3861.054,
Special District Local Laws Code, before the effective date of this
Act shall continue to serve until the expiration of the member's
term.
(b) The mayor and members of the governing body of the city
may make the appointments permitted by Section 3861.052, Special
District Local Laws Code, as amended by this Act, to fill a vacancy
occurring on the board of directors on or after the effective date
of this Act.
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.