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.