1-1  By:  Bosse (Senate Sponsor - Shelley)                 H.B. No. 1853
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1993;
    1-3  April 19, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Natural Resources; May 7, 1993, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 7, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Sims               x                               
    1-9        Truan              x                               
   1-10        Armbrister         x                               
   1-11        Barrientos         x                               
   1-12        Bivins             x                               
   1-13        Brown              x                               
   1-14        Carriker           x                               
   1-15        Lucio              x                               
   1-16        Montford                                       x   
   1-17        Ratliff                                        x   
   1-18        Shelley            x                               
   1-19                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-20                                AN ACT
   1-21  relating to fees of office for and reimbursement of expenses of
   1-22  directors of underground water conservation districts.
   1-23        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-24        SECTION 1.  Section 52.113, Water Code, is amended to read as
   1-25  follows:
   1-26        Sec. 52.113.  Fees of Office; Reimbursement for Expenses
   1-27  <Compensation of Directors>.  (a)  A director is entitled to
   1-28  receive fees of office <compensation> of not more than $100 a day
   1-29  for each day the director actually spends performing the duties of
   1-30  a director, but the fees of office <compensation> may not exceed
   1-31  $6,000 in a year.
   1-32        (b)  <$500 for any one month.>  Each director is also
   1-33  entitled to receive reimbursement of actual expenses reasonably and
   1-34  necessarily incurred while engaging in activities on the behalf of
   1-35  <in> the district.
   1-36        (c)  To receive fees of office or reimbursement for expenses,
   1-37  a director must file with the district a verified statement showing
   1-38  the number of days actually spent in the service of the district
   1-39  and a general description of the duties performed for each day of
   1-40  service.
   1-41        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-42  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-43  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-44  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-45  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-46  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-47  passage, and it is so enacted.
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   1-49                                                         Austin,
   1-50  Texas
   1-51                                                         May 7, 1993
   1-52  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-53  President of the Senate
   1-54  Sir:
   1-55  We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred H.B.
   1-56  No. 1853, have had the same under consideration, and I am
   1-57  instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
   1-58  that it do pass and be printed.
   1-59                                                         Sims,
   1-60  Chairman
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   1-62                               WITNESSES
   1-63                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
   1-64  ___________________________________________________________________
   1-65  Name:  Luana T. Buckner                          x
   1-66  Representing:  Medina County Underground
   1-67  City:  Hondo
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