By: Fraser S.B. No. 363
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to 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. Section 10, Chapter 629, Acts of the 62nd
Legislature, Regular Session, 1971 is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 10. ELECTION OF DIRECTORS. Directors serve staggered
four-year terms. Every two years an election shall be held on the
uniform election date in November to elect the appropriate number
of directors. [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
for the election 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 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.