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          By Oliveira                                            H.B. No. 318
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the election of commissioners of Brownsville Navigation
    1-3  District of Cameron County, Texas.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 3, Chapter 192, Acts of the 41st
    1-6  Legislature, Regular Session, 1929, is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 3.  (a)  There shall be held a general election in said
    1-8  "Brownsville Navigation District of Cameron County, Texas," in each
    1-9  even-numbered year on the first <third> Saturday in May, at which
   1-10  time there shall be elected the appropriate number of Navigation
   1-11  and Canal Commissioners for such district, who shall hold office
   1-12  for a term of four years, and until their successors are elected
   1-13  and have qualified.
   1-14        (b)  Navigation and Canal Commissioners are elected at large
   1-15  by place on the Board, with places numbered one through five.  The
   1-16  candidate for a numbered place who receives the greatest number of
   1-17  votes for election to that place is a Commissioner for the
   1-18  district.
   1-19        (c)  A person who wishes to have the person's name printed on
   1-20  the ballot as a candidate for a place on the Board must file an
   1-21  application with the Secretary of the Board not later than 5 p.m.
   1-22  on the 45th day before the election date.  The application must
   1-23  specify the place for which the applicant is to be a candidate.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  At the 1994 commissioners election held by the
    2-1  Brownsville Navigation District of Cameron County, Texas, a
    2-2  commissioner shall be elected to each of the even-numbered places
    2-3  on the board of navigation and canal commissioners.  At the 1996
    2-4  commissioners election held by the district, a commissioner shall
    2-5  be elected to each of the odd-numbered places on the board.
    2-6        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-11  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-12  passage, and it is so enacted.