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1		-	By: Fraser S.B. No. 363
2		-	(Murr)
	1	+	S.B. No. 363
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5		-	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	4		AN ACT
7	5		relating to the election dates for directors of the Bandera County
8	6		River Authority and Groundwater District.
9	7		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	8		SECTION 1. Chapter 654, Acts of the 71st Legislature,
11	9		Regular Session, 1989, is amended by adding Section 1A and amending
12	10		Section 10 to read as follows:
13	11		Sec. 1A. REFERENCE IN LAW MEANING BANDERA COUNTY RIVER
14	12		AUTHORITY AND GROUNDWATER DISTRICT. The district name is the
15	13		Bandera County River Authority and Groundwater District. A
16	14		reference in law to the Springhills Water Management District means
17	15		the Bandera County River Authority and Groundwater District.
18	16		Sec. 10. ELECTION OF DIRECTORS. (a) Directors serve
19	17		staggered four-year terms.
20	18		(b) Every two years [On the first Saturday in May of the
21	19		second year after the year in which the district is authorized to be
22	20		created at a confirmation election,] an election shall be held in
23	21		the district on the uniform election date in November for the
24	22		election of the appropriate number of directors. Two directors
25	23		shall be elected from each commissioner precinct and one director
26	24		shall be elected at large. The director elected from each
27	25		commissioner precinct who receives the fewer number of votes shall
28	26		serve a two-year term, and the director elected from each
29	27		commissioner precinct who receives the most votes and the director
30	28		elected at large shall serve a four-year term. Thereafter, on the
31	29		same date in each subsequent second year, the appropriate number of
32	30		directors shall be elected to the board.
33	31		SECTION 2. The term of a director elected to the board of
34	32		the Bandera County River Authority and Groundwater District in May
35	33		2013 expires on December 1, 2016, and the term of a director elected
36	34		to the board in May 2015 expires December 1, 2018.
37	35		SECTION 3. (a) The legislature finds that the Bandera
38	36		County River Authority and Groundwater District was originally
39	37		created by Chapter 629, Acts of the 62nd Legislature, Regular
40	38		Session, 1971, as the Bandera County River Authority, and then
41	39		modified or merged by Chapter 654, Acts of the 71st Legislature,
42	40		Regular Session, 1989, as the Springhills Water Management
43	41		District.
44	42		(b) The legislature further finds that the Springhills
45	43		Water Management District was renamed the Bandera County River
46	44		Authority and Groundwater District in 2003.
47	45		SECTION 4. (a) The legal notice of the intention to
48	46		introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this
49	47		Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a
50	48		copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies,
51	49		officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished
52	50		under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313,
53	51		Government Code.
54	52		(b) The governor has submitted the notice and Act to the
55	53		Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
56	54		(c) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed
57	55		its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, the
58	56		lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
59	57		representatives within the required time.
60	58		(d) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
61	59		state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
62	60		to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled
63	61		and accomplished.
64	62		SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
	63	+	______________________________ ______________________________
	64	+	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
	65	+	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 363 passed the Senate on
	66	+	April 9, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
	67	+	______________________________
	68	+	Secretary of the Senate
	69	+	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 363 passed the House on
	70	+	May 19, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, two
	71	+	present not voting.
	72	+	______________________________
	73	+	Chief Clerk of the House
	74	+	Approved:
	75	+	______________________________
	76	+	Date
	77	+	______________________________
	78	+	Governor