Texas 2023 88th Regular

Texas House Bill HB5025 Introduced / Bill

Filed 03/16/2023

                    By: Zwiener H.B. No. 5025


 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to the Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District;
 authorizing a fee.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1.  Section 8843.056(c), Special District Local Laws
 Code, is amended to read as follows:
 (c)  When the boundaries of the single-member districts are
 changed, a director in office on the effective date of the change,
 or elected or appointed before the effective date of the change to a
 term of office beginning on or after the effective date of the
 change, is entitled to serve the term or remainder of the term in
 the single-member district to which elected or appointed even
 though the change in boundaries places the person's residence
 outside the single-member district for which the person was elected
 or appointed. [At the first election after the single-member
 districts are revised, a new director shall be elected from each
 district.  The directors shall draw lots to determine which two
 directors serve one-year terms and which three directors serve
 two-year terms.]
 SECTION 2.   Section 8843.055, Special District Local Laws
 Code is repealed.
 SECTION 3.  The selection of terms that occurred before the
 effective date of this Act and that was accomplished in accordance
 with 8843.056(c), Special District Local Laws Code, is ratified,
 confirmed, and validated and all governmental acts and proceedings
 of the board of directors that occurred before the effective date of
 this Act are validated for all purposes.
 SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.