By: Clardy (Senate Sponsor - Hughes) H.B. No. 651
(In the Senate - Received from the House March 27, 2017;
April 6, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on
Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs; May 16, 2017, reported
favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 16, 2017, sent
to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the election date of the board of directors of the Rusk
County Groundwater Conservation District.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 11(b), Chapter 764, Acts of the 78th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, is amended to read as follows:
(b) On the uniform election date in November [first Saturday
in May] of each [subsequent] even-numbered year [following the
election], the appropriate number of directors shall be elected.
SECTION 2. Section 11(a), Chapter 764, Acts of the 78th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, is repealed.
SECTION 3. (a) A director of the board of the Rusk County
Groundwater Conservation District who is serving on the day before
the effective date of this Act shall serve until the director's term
expires. A director whose term expires in May 2018 shall serve
until the director's successor has qualified following the
directors' election held on the uniform election date in November
2018 in accordance with Section 11, Chapter 764, Acts of the 78th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, as amended by this Act. A
director whose term expires in May 2020 shall serve until the
director's successor has qualified following the directors'
election held on the uniform election date in November 2020.
(b) This section expires September 1, 2022.
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, one of the required recipients, 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, 2017.
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