By Howard H.B. No. 3224
74R8306 MI-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the board of directors of the Fort Bend Subsidence
1-3 District.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 5, Chapter 1045, Acts of the 71st
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, is amended by amending
1-7 Subsections (c), (f), and (m) and adding Subsection (s) to read as
1-8 follows:
1-9 (c) The Commissioners Court of Fort Bend County shall
1-10 appoint two directors who represent agricultural interests and live
1-11 in an unincorporated area, two directors who represent industrial
1-12 interests, <and> two directors who represent business interests,
1-13 and one director who represents the interests of municipal utility
1-14 districts.
1-15 (f) All directors must be residents of and qualified voters
1-16 in the district. The member appointed under Subsection (c) of
1-17 this section to represent the interests of municipal utility
1-18 districts must be a resident of a municipal utility district.
1-19 (m) The chairman shall preside over meetings of the board.
1-20 The chairman may cast a second vote to break a tie. If the
1-21 chairman is not present, the vice-chairman shall preside.
1-22 (s) The term of a director appointed under Subsection (c) of
1-23 this section to represent the interests of municipal utility
1-24 districts expires on January 31 of each even-numbered year.
2-1 SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date
2-2 of this Act, the Commissioners Court of Fort Bend County shall
2-3 appoint to the board of directors of the Fort Bend Subsidence
2-4 District a director who represents the interests of municipal
2-5 utility districts, as provided by Sections 5(c) and (f), Chapter
2-6 1045, Acts of the 71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, as
2-7 amended by this Act.
2-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.