By Berlanga                                           H.B. No. 3211
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the qualifications and terms of the port commissioners
    1-3  of the Port of Corpus Christi Authority of Nueces County.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Sections 2 and 3, Chapter 397, Acts of the 68th
    1-6  Legislature, Regular Session, 1983, are amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 2.  APPOINTMENT OF PORT COMMISSIONERS; ELIGIBILITY.  (a)
    1-8  The Commissioners Court of Nueces County shall appoint four members
    1-9  to the port commission, and the City Council of Corpus Christi
   1-10  shall appoint three members to the port commission.
   1-11        (b)  A person must have been a resident of Nueces County for
   1-12  at least six months to be eligible for appointment to the port
   1-13  commission.
   1-14        Sec. 3.  TERMS OF OFFICE.  (a)  The port commissioners shall
   1-15  serve staggered three-year terms.
   1-16        (b)  A person may not serve more than four full terms as port
   1-17  commissioner.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act does not
   1-19  affect the eligibility of a person who, on the effective date of
   1-20  this Act, is a member of the port commission of the Port of Corpus
   1-21  Christi Authority of Nueces County.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-3  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-4  passage, and it is so enacted.