By:  Martin                                           H.B. No. 2177
       73R2720 MLR-D
                                 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.  <Upon the effective date
    1-9  of this Act, the following named persons shall be and constitute
   1-10  the Board of Directors of said District:>
   1-11        <Position 1:  Arthur Alpert>
   1-12        <Position 2:  Alvin Kelso>
   1-13        <Position 3:  A. R. Anderson>
   1-14        <Position 4:  W. R. Nisbet>
   1-15        <Position 5:  C. J. Holgrave>
   1-16        <Position 6:  Charles Kilgore>
   1-17        <Position 7:  Gaddis Wittjen>
   1-18  <who shall serve until May 1, 1967, and shall meet and organize as
   1-19  soon as practicable after the effective date of this Act, and shall
   1-20  file their official bonds and subscribe to the Constitutional Oath
   1-21  of office.>  Vacancies on the Board of Directors, whether by death,
   1-22  resignation or termination of the term of office, shall be filled
   1-23  by appointment by the Commissioners Court of Galveston County.  All
   1-24  terms of office shall be for a period of three (3) <two (2)> years.
    2-1  Terms shall be staggered so that the terms of three (3) directors
    2-2  expire one year and the terms of two (2) directors expire in each
    2-3  of the two following years <except that the first term of office
    2-4  after May 1, 1967, for  Positions 2, 4 and 6 shall be for a term of
    2-5  one (1) year>.  Three (3) of the members  appointed by the
    2-6  Commissioners Court shall be registered professional engineers
    2-7  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 five (5) directors shall be appointed by the
   2-15  Commissioners Court of Galveston County upon the recommendation of
   2-16  advisory boards appointed by the Gulf Coast Water Authority with
   2-17  three of those directors appointed on the recommendation of the
   2-18  Municipal Advisory Board and two on the recommendation of the
   2-19  Industrial Advisory Board.
   2-20        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-21        SECTION 3.  (a)  To succeed the directors of the Gulf Coast
   2-22  Water Authority whose terms expire in 1994, the Galveston County
   2-23  Commissioners Court shall appoint three directors to serve terms
   2-24  expiring May 1, 1997.
   2-25        (b)  To succeed the directors of the Gulf Coast Water
   2-26  Authority whose terms expire in 1995, the Galveston County
   2-27  Commissioners Court shall appoint two directors to serve terms
    3-1  expiring May 1, 1998, and two directors to serve terms expiring May
    3-2  1, 1999.
    3-3        (c)  Subsequent appointees serve three-year terms.
    3-4        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-6  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
    3-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.