By Patterson S.B. No. 327 74R3131 JJT-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the appointment and terms of office of the directors of 1-3 the Gulf Coast Water Authority. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 5, Chapter 712, Acts of the 59th 1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1965 (Article 8280-339, Vernon's 1-7 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 5. (a) The management and control of the District is 1-9 hereby vested in a Board of seven (7) directors. The directors 1-10 shall represent the geographic and ethnic diversity of the county. 1-11 (b) Vacancies on the Board of Directors, whether by death, 1-12 resignation or termination of the term of office, shall be filled 1-13 by appointment by the Commissioners Court of Galveston County. All 1-14 terms of office shall be for a period of two (2) years expiring 1-15 September 1 of the appropriate year. Terms shall be staggered so 1-16 that the terms of three (3) directors expire one year and the terms 1-17 of four (4) directors expire the next year. Three (3) of the 1-18 members appointed by the Commissioners Court shall be registered 1-19 professional engineers under the laws of Texas. 1-20 (c) The Commissioners Court of Galveston County shall 1-21 appoint: 1-22 (1) two directors on its own initiative, one for a 1-23 term expiring in an even-numbered year and one for a term expiring 1-24 in an odd-numbered year; 2-1 (2) two directors on the written recommendation of the 2-2 District's Industrial Division Operating Advisory Committee, one 2-3 for a term expiring in an even-numbered year and one for a term 2-4 expiring in an odd-numbered year; 2-5 (3) two directors, including a representative of the 2-6 City of League City, on the written recommendation of the 2-7 District's Mainland Division Operating Advisory Committee, one for 2-8 a term expiring in an even-numbered year and one for a term 2-9 expiring in an odd-numbered year; and 2-10 (4) one director on the recommendation of the City of 2-11 Galveston city council. 2-12 (d) The Commissioners Court of Galveston County may reject a 2-13 recommendation of the Industrial Division or Mainland Division 2-14 Operating Advisory Committee. 2-15 (e) The District from time to time shall certify to the 2-16 District the names of the members of the Industrial Division or 2-17 Mainland Division Operating Advisory Committee. 2-18 SECTION 2. Section 5(a), Chapter 712, Acts of the 59th 2-19 Legislature, Regular Session, 1965 (Article 8280-339, Vernon's 2-20 Texas Civil Statutes), as added by Chapter 399, Acts of the 61st 2-21 Legislature, Regular Session, 1969, is repealed. 2-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-27 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 3-1 passage, and it is so enacted.