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1	1	S.B. No. 1088
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4	4	AN ACT
5	5	relating to eligibility to serve as a member of the board of
6	6	directors of the West Central Texas Municipal Water District.
7	7	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
8	8	SECTION 1. Sections 3(a), (b), (c), and (d), Chapter 66,
9	9	Acts of the 54th Legislature, Regular Session, 1955, are amended to
10	10	read as follows:
11	11	(a) All powers of the District shall be exercised by a Board
12	12	of Directors. Each city in the District[, each of whom] shall
13	13	appoint a person to the Board of Directors, as provided by this
14	14	section, [be appointed] by majority vote of the governing body of a
15	15	[the] city [in which he resides].
16	16	(b) The number of Directors to be appointed by [from] each
17	17	city in the District shall be governed by the population of the
18	18	city, according to the most recent Federal Census, as follows:
19	19	(1) each [Each] city having a population of ten
20	20	thousand (10,000) or less, shall appoint two (2) Directors; and
21	21	(2) each [Each] city having a population of more than
22	22	ten thousand (10,000), shall appoint two (2) Directors plus one (1)
23	23	Director for each ten thousand (10,000) population or part thereof
24	24	over ten thousand (10,000), provided however, that no city shall
25	25	appoint more than one-half (1/2) of the members of the Board.
26	26	(c) In [the appointment of Directors from each city which is
27	27	entitled to appoint more than one (1) Director, not less than one
28	28	(1) Director shall serve to and including May 31, 1956, and not less
29	29	than one (1) shall serve to and including May 31, 1957, the
30	30	Directors to serve for the short term and those to serve for the
31	31	long term shall be specified by the governing body of the city; in
32	32	May of 1956 and in] May of each year the governing body of each
33	33	[such] city shall appoint the necessary Director or Directors for
34	34	the two (2) year term beginning June 1st of that year. The first
35	35	Director appointed by [from] any city, hereafter annexed to the
36	36	District, which is entitled to only one (1) Director, may be
37	37	appointed for a term ending on a May 31st not more than two (2) years
38	38	from date of appointment. The subsequent Director or Directors
39	39	shall be appointed as provided above.
40	40	(d) Each Director shall serve for the Director's [his] term
41	41	of office as herein provided, and thereafter until a [his]
42	42	successor shall be appointed and qualified. No person shall be
43	43	appointed a Director unless the person [he] resides in and owns
44	44	taxable property in a county in which the city that [from which he
45	45	is] appointed the person is located. No member of a governing body
46	46	of a city, and no employee of a city shall be appointed as Director.
47	47	Such Directors shall subscribe the Constitutional oath of office,
48	48	and each shall give bond for the faithful performance of the
49	49	Director's [his] duties in the amount of Five Thousand Dollars
50	50	($5,000), the cost of which shall be paid by the District. A
51	51	majority shall constitute a quorum. If any Director no longer
52	52	resides in and owns taxable property in a county in which the city
53	53	that appointed the Director is located [moves from the city from
54	54	which he is appointed], the governing body of such city shall
55	55	appoint a Director to succeed that Director [him], for the
56	56	unexpired term.
57	57	SECTION 2. The West Central Texas Municipal Water District
58	58	retains all rights, powers, privileges, authority, duties, and
59	59	functions that it had before the effective date of this Act.
60	60	SECTION 3. (a) The legal notice of the intention to
61	61	introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this
62	62	Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a
63	63	copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies,
64	64	officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished
65	65	under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313,
66	66	Government Code.
67	67	(b) The governor, one of the required recipients, has
68	68	submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on
69	69	Environmental Quality.
70	70	(c) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed
71	71	its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, the
72	72	lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
73	73	representatives within the required time.
74	74	(d) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
75	75	state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
76	76	to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled
77	77	and accomplished.
78	78	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
79	79	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
80	80	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
81	81	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
82	82	Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
83	83	______________________________ ______________________________
84	84	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
85	85	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1088 passed the Senate on
86	86	April 12, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
87	87	______________________________
88	88	Secretary of the Senate
89	89	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1088 passed the House on
90	90	May 9, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 134, Nays 8, two present
91	91	not voting.
92	92	______________________________
93	93	Chief Clerk of the House
94	94	Approved:
95	95	______________________________
96	96	Date
97	97	______________________________
98	98	Governor