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          By Thompson of Tarrant                                H.B. No. 2876
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the election and terms of office of the board of
    1-3  directors of the Tarrant County Water Control and Improvement
    1-4  District No. 1.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Chapter 268, Acts of the 55th Legislature,
    1-7  Regular Session, 1957 (Article 8280-207, Vernon's Texas Civil
    1-8  Statutes), is amended by adding Sections 1a and 2a to read as
    1-9  follows:
   1-10        Sec. 1a.  (a)  The district is governed by a board of seven
   1-11  directors elected as prescribed by Chapter 55, Water Code, except
   1-12  that the board in office preceding the date of the initial election
   1-13  under this section shall establish seven precincts from which the
   1-14  directors are elected.
   1-15        (b)  Directors shall serve staggered four-year terms.
   1-16        (c)  One director shall be elected from each precinct.
   1-17        (d)  A person shall indicate on the application for a place
   1-18  on the ballot the precinct that the person seeks to represent. 
   1-19        (e)  The board shall revise each precinct after each federal
   1-20  decennial census to reflect population changes.  At the first
   1-21  election after the precincts are revised, a new director shall be
   1-22  elected from each precinct.  The directors shall draw lots to
   1-23  determine which three directors shall serve two-year terms and
   1-24  which four directors shall serve four-year terms.
    2-1        Sec. 2a.  (a)  The first election under Section 1a of this
    2-2  Act shall be held on August 14, 1993.
    2-3        (b)  The initial elected directors shall draw lots to
    2-4  determine which three directors shall serve two-year terms and
    2-5  which four directors shall serve four-year terms.
    2-6        (c)  After the initial election of directors, an election
    2-7  shall be held on the first Saturday in May of each odd-numbered
    2-8  year, and the appropriate number of successor directors shall be
    2-9  elected to serve four-year terms.
   2-10        (d)  The terms of the directors serving on the date of the
   2-11  first election under Section 1a of this Act expire when the
   2-12  initially elected directors take office.
   2-13        SECTION 2.  Notwithstanding Section 1a(a), Chapter 268, Acts
   2-14  of the 55th Legislature, 1957 (Article 8280-207, Vernon's Texas
   2-15  Civil Statutes), as added by this Act, the board of the Tarrant
   2-16  County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 consists of
   2-17  five members until the sixth and seventh members elected under
   2-18  Section 2a(a) of that Act qualify for office.
   2-19        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-24  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-25  passage, and it is so enacted.
   2-26                       COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
   2-27        Amend H.B. No. 2876 by adding Subsection (e) to Sec. 1a to
    3-1  read as follows:
    3-2        (e)  The districts shall, to the greatest extent possible,
    3-3  use the same election precincts and polling places as any
    3-4  municipality in the water district having elections on the same
    3-5  day.
    3-6                                                                Bosse