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          AN ACT
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        relating to fees of office for directors of groundwater  | 
      
      
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        conservation districts. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Section 36.060(a), Water Code, is amended to  | 
      
      
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        read as follows: | 
      
      
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               (a)  A director is entitled to receive fees of office of not  | 
      
      
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        more than $250 [$150] a day for each day the director actually  | 
      
      
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        spends performing the duties of a director.  The fees of office may  | 
      
      
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        not exceed $9,000 a year. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a fee paid to a director  | 
      
      
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        of a groundwater conservation district for duties performed on or  | 
      
      
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        after the effective date of this Act. A fee paid for duties  | 
      
      
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        performed before that date is governed by the law in effect on the  | 
      
      
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        date the duties are performed, and that law is continued in effect  | 
      
      
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        for that purpose. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | 
      
      
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           President of the Senate | 
        Speaker of the House      | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 1563 was passed by the House on May 2,  | 
      
      
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        2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 142, Nays 5, 2 present, not  | 
      
      
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        voting. | 
      
      
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        Chief Clerk of the House    | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 1563 was passed by the Senate on May  | 
      
      
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        20, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 1. | 
      
      
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        Secretary of the Senate     | 
      
      
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                         Governor        |