By Bosse                                              H.B. No. 1854
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the sworn statement, bond, and oath of a director of
    1-3  Underground Water Conservation Districts.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 52.108, Texas Water Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 52.108.  SWORN STATEMENT, BOND AND OATH OF OFFICE.  (a)
    1-8  <Each> As soon as practicable after a director is elected or
    1-9  appointed, that director shall <take the oath of office prescribed
   1-10  by the constitution for public officers> make the sworn statement
   1-11  prescribed by the constitution for public office.
   1-12        (b)  As soon as practicable after a director has made the
   1-13  sworn statement, and before beginning to perform the duties of
   1-14  office, that director shall take the oath of office prescribed by
   1-15  the constitution for public officers.
   1-16        (c)  Before beginning to perform the duties of office, each
   1-17  director shall execute a bond for $10,000 payable to the district
   1-18  and conditioned on the faithful performance of that director's
   1-19  duties.  All bonds of the directors shall be approved by the board
   1-20  and paid for by the district.
   1-21        (d)  The sworn statement, bond, and oath shall be filed with
   1-22  the district and retained in its records.  A duplicate original of
   1-23  the sworn statement and the oath shall also be filed with the
    2-1  secretary of state within 10 days, after their execution and need
    2-2  not be filed before the new director begins to perform the duties
    2-3  of office.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-10  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-11  passage, and it is so enacted.