By: Nichols S.B. No. 2282
(In the Senate - Filed April 18, 2017; April 19, 2017, read
first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
Relations; April 26, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0;
April 26, 2017, sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2282 By: Bettencourt
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the dissolution of the Angelina County Water Control
and Improvement District No. 3 and the territory of the Angelina
County Fresh Water Supply District No. 1.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. (a) Beginning on the effective date of this
Act, the directors of the Angelina County Water Control and
Improvement District No. 3 shall wind up the affairs of the
district.
(b) On the 30th day after the effective date of this Act:
(1) the Angelina County Water Control and Improvement
District No. 3 is dissolved;
(2) the terms of the directors of the district expire;
and
(3) all assets and liabilities of the district are
transferred to the Angelina County Fresh Water Supply District No.
1.
SECTION 2. Subtitle B, Title 6, Special District Local Laws
Code, is amended by adding Chapter 6918 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 6918. ANGELINA COUNTY FRESH WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT NO. 1;
TERRITORY
Sec. 6918.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "district"
means the Angelina County Fresh Water Supply District No. 1.
Sec. 6918.002. ADDITIONAL TERRITORY. On the effective date
of the Act enacting this chapter, the territory of the former
Angelina County Water Control and Improvement District No. 3, as
that territory existed on April 1, 2017, is added to the territory
of the district.
SECTION 3. Before the 30th day after the effective date of
this Act, the board of directors of the Angelina County Water
Control and Improvement District No. 3 may select from the members
serving on the board on the date of the selection one member to
serve as a nonvoting member of the board of the Angelina County
Fresh Water Supply District No. 1 from the date of the selection
until the next election of directors for the Angelina County Fresh
Water Supply District No. 1.
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 immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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