By Bosse H.B. No. 1853
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to fees of office of directors of Underground Water
1-3 Conservation Districts.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 52.113, Texas Water Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 52.113. <COMPENSATION OF DIRECTORS> FEES OF OFFICE (a)
1-8 A director is entitled to receive <compensation> fees of office of
1-9 not more than $100 a day for each day the director actually spends
1-10 performing the duties of a director, but the <compensation> fees of
1-11 office may not exceed <$500 for any one month> $6,000 per annum.
1-12 (b) Each director is also entitled to receive reimbursement
1-13 of actual expenses reasonably and necessarily incurred while
1-14 engaging in activities <in> on behalf of the district.
1-15 (c) In order to receive fees of office and to receive
1-16 reimbursement for expenses, each director shall file with the
1-17 district a verified statement showing the number of days actually
1-18 spent in the service of the district and a general description of
1-19 the duties performed for each day of service.
1-20 SECTION 2. This act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.