1-1 By: Glaze (Senate Sponsor - Cain) H.B. No. 1381
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1995;
1-3 April 24, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Natural Resources; May 10, 1995, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 10, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the election of the members of the board of directors
1-9 of the Van Zandt County Waste Disposal District.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 3.04(b), Chapter 1256, Acts of the 71st
1-12 Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (b) A person who desires to have his name printed on the
1-14 ballot at a directors' election as a candidate for director shall
1-15 file a petition with the secretary of the district before the 60th
1-16 <30th> day preceding the date of the election. The petition must
1-17 specify the commissioners precinct the candidate wishes to
1-18 represent or specify that the candidate wishes to represent the
1-19 district at large.
1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-25 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-26 passage, and it is so enacted.
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