1-1  By:  Berlanga (Senate Sponsor - Truan)                H.B. No. 3211
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 4, 1995;
    1-3  May 5, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
    1-4  Resources; May 12, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 12, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the qualifications and terms of the port commissioners
    1-9  of the Port of Corpus Christi Authority of Nueces County.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Sections 2 and 3, Chapter 397, Acts of the 68th
   1-12  Legislature, Regular Session, 1983, are amended to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 2.  APPOINTMENT OF PORT COMMISSIONERS; ELIGIBILITY.  (a)
   1-14  The Commissioners Court of Nueces County shall appoint four members
   1-15  to the port commission, and the City Council of Corpus Christi
   1-16  shall appoint three members to the port commission.
   1-17        (b)  A person must have been a resident of Nueces County for
   1-18  at least six months to be eligible for appointment to the port
   1-19  commission.
   1-20        Sec. 3.  TERMS OF OFFICE.  (a)  The port commissioners shall
   1-21  serve staggered three-year terms.
   1-22        (b)  A person may not serve more than four full terms as port
   1-23  commissioner.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act does not
   1-25  affect the eligibility of a person who, on the effective date of
   1-26  this Act, is a member of the port commission of the Port of Corpus
   1-27  Christi Authority of Nueces County.
   1-28        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-29  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-30  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-31  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-32  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-33  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-34  passage, and it is so enacted.
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