1-1 By: Oliveira (Senate Sponsor - Lucio) H.B. No. 318
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 25, 1993;
1-3 March 30, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 25, 1993, reported favorably by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 25, 1993, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Armbrister x
1-10 Leedom x
1-11 Carriker x
1-12 Henderson x
1-13 Madla x
1-14 Moncrief x
1-15 Patterson x
1-16 Rosson x
1-17 Shapiro x
1-18 Wentworth x
1-19 Whitmire x
1-20 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-21 AN ACT
1-22 relating to the election of commissioners of Brownsville Navigation
1-23 District of Cameron County, Texas.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Section 3, Chapter 192, Acts of the 41st
1-26 Legislature, Regular Session, 1929, is amended to read as follows:
1-27 Sec. 3. (a) There shall be held a general election in said
1-28 "Brownsville Navigation District of Cameron County, Texas," in each
1-29 even-numbered year on the first <third> Saturday in May, at which
1-30 time there shall be elected the appropriate number of Navigation
1-31 and Canal Commissioners for such district, who shall hold office
1-32 for a term of four years, and until their successors are elected
1-33 and have qualified.
1-34 (b) Navigation and Canal Commissioners are elected at large
1-35 by place on the Board, with places numbered one through five. The
1-36 candidate for a numbered place who receives the greatest number of
1-37 votes for election to that place is a Commissioner for the
1-38 district.
1-39 (c) A person who wishes to have the person's name printed on
1-40 the ballot as a candidate for a place on the Board must file an
1-41 application with the Secretary of the Board not later than 5 p.m.
1-42 on the 45th day before the election date. The application must
1-43 specify the place for which the applicant is to be a candidate.
1-44 SECTION 2. At the 1994 commissioners election held by the
1-45 Brownsville Navigation District of Cameron County, Texas, a
1-46 commissioner shall be elected to each of the even-numbered places
1-47 on the board of navigation and canal commissioners. At the 1996
1-48 commissioners election held by the district, a commissioner shall
1-49 be elected to each of the odd-numbered places on the board.
1-50 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-51 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-52 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-53 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-54 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-55 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-56 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-57 * * * * *
1-58 Austin,
1-59 Texas
1-60 May 25, 1993
1-61 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-62 President of the Senate
1-63 Sir:
1-64 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
1-65 referred H.B. No. 318, have had the same under consideration, and I
1-66 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
1-67 recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
1-68 Armbrister,
2-1 Chairman
2-2 * * * * *
2-3 WITNESSES
2-4 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 318.