H.B. No. 3211 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.