73R8785 MLR-D
By Martin H.B. No. 2177
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2177:
By Puente C.S.H.B. No. 2177
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the directors of the Gulf Coast Water Authority.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Sections 5 and 5(a), Chapter 712, Acts of the
1-5 59th Legislature, Regular Session, 1965 (Article 8280-339, Vernon's
1-6 Texas Civil Statutes), are amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 5. The management and control of the District is hereby
1-8 vested in a Board of seven (7) directors. The directors shall
1-9 represent the geographic and ethnic diversity of the county. <Upon
1-10 the effective date of this Act, the following named persons shall
1-11 be and constitute the Board of Directors of said District:>
1-12 <Position 1: Arthur Alpert>
1-13 <Position 2: Alvin Kelso>
1-14 <Position 3: A. R. Anderson>
1-15 <Position 4: W. R. Nisbet>
1-16 <Position 5: C. J. Holgrave>
1-17 <Position 6: Charles Kilgore>
1-18 <Position 7: Gaddis Wittjen>
1-19 <who shall serve until May 1, 1967, and shall meet and organize as
1-20 soon as practicable after the effective date of this Act, and shall
1-21 file their official bonds and subscribe to the Constitutional Oath
1-22 of office.> Vacancies on the Board of Directors, whether by death,
1-23 resignation or termination of the term of office, shall be filled
1-24 by appointment by the Commissioners Court of Galveston County. All
2-1 terms of office shall be for a period of two (2) years. Terms
2-2 shall be staggered so that the terms of three (3) directors expire
2-3 one year and the terms of four (4) directors expire the next year
2-4 <except that the first term of office after May 1, 1967, for
2-5 Positions 2, 4 and 6 shall be for a term of one (1) year>. Three
2-6 (3) of the members appointed by the Commissioners Court shall be
2-7 registered professional engineers under the laws of Texas.
2-8 Sec. 5(a). One (1) director <Three (3) of the directors> of
2-9 the District shall be appointed by the Commissioners Court of
2-10 Galveston County upon the recommendation of the City Council of the
2-11 City of Galveston <and one (1) director of the District shall be
2-12 appointed by the Commissioners Court of Galveston County upon the
2-13 recommendation of the City Council of the City of Texas City>. The
2-14 remaining six (6) directors shall be appointed by the Commissioners
2-15 Court of Galveston County with two directors appointed at-large and
2-16 the remaining four directors appointed on the written
2-17 recommendation of advisory committees appointed by the Gulf Coast
2-18 Water Authority. Two directors shall be recommended by the
2-19 Mainland Municipal Advisory Committee and two directors shall be
2-20 recommended by the Industrial Advisory Committee. The
2-21 Commissioners Court of Galveston County is entitled to accept or
2-22 reject the recommendations made to the court by the advisory
2-23 committees. If a recommendation made by an advisory committee is
2-24 rejected, the advisory committee shall submit additional
2-25 recommendations to the court.
2-26 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-27 SECTION 3. (a) To succeed the directors of the Gulf Coast
3-1 Water Authority whose terms expire in 1994, the Galveston County
3-2 Commissioners Court shall appoint three directors to serve terms
3-3 expiring May 1, 1996.
3-4 (b) To succeed the directors of the Gulf Coast Water
3-5 Authority whose terms expire in 1995, the Galveston County
3-6 Commissioners Court shall appoint four directors to serve terms
3-7 expiring May 1, 1997.
3-8 (c) Subsequent appointees serve two-year terms.
3-9 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
3-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.