1-1 By: Price (Senate Sponsor - Galloway) H.B. No. 3232
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 1995;
1-3 May 17, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 19, 1995, reported adversely, with
1-5 favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays
1-6 0; May 19, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3232 By: Galloway
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the election of commissioners of the Port of Beaumont
1-11 Navigation District of Jefferson County.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Sections 9(a) and (d), Chapter 147, Acts of the
1-14 51st Legislature, Regular Session, 1949, are amended to read as
1-15 follows:
1-16 (a) Commissioners serve staggered four-year <six-year> terms
1-17 with the terms of three <two> commissioners expiring every two
1-18 years.
1-19 (d) One commissioner shall be elected from each of the four
1-20 wards established under Section 10 of this Act by the qualified
1-21 voters of that ward. Two commissioners shall be elected at large
1-22 by the qualified voters of the district <Commissioners are elected
1-23 by the voters of the District at large, and each ward is entitled
1-24 to representation on the Board of Port Commissioners by a resident
1-25 of the ward>.
1-26 SECTION 2. On the first Saturday in May 1997, commissioners
1-27 of the Port of Beaumont Navigation District of Jefferson County
1-28 shall be elected for Ward 1 and Ward 3 and for the at-large
1-29 position that except for this Act would be filled at the May 1999
1-30 commissioners election. On the first Saturday in May 1999,
1-31 commissioners shall be elected for Ward 2 and Ward 4 and for the
1-32 second at-large position. Commissioners elected at the 1997, 1999,
1-33 and subsequent elections serve four-year terms.
1-34 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-39 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-40 passage, and it is so enacted.
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