73R4370 MLR-D
          By Harris                                             H.B. No. 2869
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to terms of office of members of the board of
    1-3  commissioners of the Brazoria County Conservation and Reclamation
    1-4  District Number Three.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 16, Chapter 307, Acts of the 61st
    1-7  Legislature, Regular Session, 1969 (Article 8280-476, Vernon's
    1-8  Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    1-9        Sec. 16.  The <present> commissioners of the <drainage>
   1-10  district <who shall become members of the board of commissioners of
   1-11  the district on the effective date of this Act, or their
   1-12  successors, shall hold office until January 1, 1971.  Their
   1-13  successors shall be elected at the next general election on the
   1-14  first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1970, when there
   1-15  shall be an election within the district for the election of the
   1-16  successors of the members of the first board of commissioners.
   1-17  Commissioners> shall <thereafter> be elected <every two years> at
   1-18  the general election for county and state officers held on the
   1-19  first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in even-numbered
   1-20  years, and shall serve staggered four-year <two-year> terms with
   1-21  the terms of two commissioners and one commissioner, alternately,
   1-22  commencing on January 1 of the year following each <such> general
   1-23  election.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  (a)  The commissioners of the Brazoria County
    2-1  Conservation and Reclamation District Number Three who are
    2-2  presently serving as commissioners of the district shall hold
    2-3  office until January 1, 1995.
    2-4        (b)  Notwithstanding Section 16, Chapter 307, Acts of the
    2-5  61st Legislature, Regular Session, 1969 (Article 8280-476, Vernon's
    2-6  Texas Civil Statutes), as amended  by this Act, at the general
    2-7  election held November 8, 1994, commissioners shall be elected to
    2-8  hold place number one and place number three for four-year terms
    2-9  and a commissioner shall be elected to hold place number two for a
   2-10  two-year term.  On expiration of the initial term, the term of the
   2-11  commissioner elected to hold place number two is four years.
   2-12        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-17  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-18  passage, and it is so enacted.