By Gray H.B. No. 1669
74R6516 JJT-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the appointment and terms of office of the directors of
1-3 the Gulf Coast Water Authority.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 5, Chapter 712, Acts of the 59th
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1965 (Article 8280-339, Vernon's
1-7 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 5. (a) The management and control of the District is
1-9 hereby vested in a Board of seven (7) directors. The directors
1-10 shall represent the geographic and ethnic diversity of the county.
1-11 (b) Vacancies on the Board of Directors, whether by death,
1-12 resignation or termination of the term of office, shall be filled
1-13 by appointment by the Commissioners Court of Galveston County. All
1-14 terms of office shall be for a period of two (2) years expiring
1-15 September 1 of the appropriate year. <Terms shall be staggered so
1-16 that the terms of three (3) directors expire one year and the terms
1-17 of four (4) directors expire the next year.> Three (3) of the
1-18 members appointed by the Commissioners Court shall be registered
1-19 professional engineers under the laws of Texas.
1-20 (c) The Commissioners Court of Galveston County shall
1-21 appoint:
1-22 (1) two directors on its own initiative, one for a
1-23 term expiring in an even-numbered year and one for a term expiring
1-24 in an odd-numbered year;
2-1 (2) two directors on the written recommendation of the
2-2 District's Industrial Division Operating Advisory Committee, one
2-3 for a term expiring in an even-numbered year and one for a term
2-4 expiring in an odd-numbered year;
2-5 (3) two directors on the written recommendation of the
2-6 District's Mainland Division Operating Advisory Committee, which
2-7 recommendation must include a representative of the City of League
2-8 City, one for a term expiring in an even-numbered year and one for
2-9 a term expiring in an odd-numbered year; and
2-10 (4) one director on the recommendation of the City of
2-11 Galveston City Council for a term expiring in an odd-numbered year.
2-12 (d) The Commissioners Court of Galveston County may accept
2-13 or reject a recommendation of the Industrial Division Operating
2-14 Advisory Committee, Mainland Division Operating Advisory Committee,
2-15 or the City of Galveston.
2-16 (e) The District from time to time shall certify to the
2-17 Commissioners Court of Galveston County the names of the members of
2-18 the Industrial Division Operating Advisory Committee or Mainland
2-19 Division Operating Advisory Committee.
2-20 SECTION 2. Section 5(a), Chapter 712, Acts of the 59th
2-21 Legislature, Regular Session, 1965 (Article 8280-339, Vernon's
2-22 Texas Civil Statutes), as added by Chapter 399, Acts of the 61st
2-23 Legislature, Regular Session, 1969, is repealed.
2-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-3 passage, and it is so enacted.