By Madla S.B. No. 1647
74R6745 KKA-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the governance of the Bexar-Medina-Atascosa Counties
1-3 Water Control and Improvement District No. 1.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. In this Act:
1-6 (1) "Board" means the board of directors of the
1-7 Bexar-Medina-Atascosa Counties Water Control and Improvement
1-8 District No. 1.
1-9 (2) "District" means the Bexar-Medina-Atascosa
1-10 Counties Water Control and Improvement District No. 1.
1-11 SECTION 2. CONVERSION TO SEVEN-MEMBER BOARD. (a) The board
1-12 in office on the effective date of this Act shall divide the
1-13 district into five numbered single-member precincts not later than
1-14 January 1, 1996.
1-15 (b) The division of the district into single-member
1-16 precincts does not affect the terms of directors in office on the
1-17 effective date of this Act. Each director serves until the
1-18 director's term expires. On expiration of a director's term, the
1-19 director's position is converted to a single-member precinct
1-20 position.
1-21 (c) At the board election held on the first Saturday in May
1-22 of 1996, five directors shall be elected. One director shall be
1-23 elected from each of single-member precincts numbers one, three,
1-24 and five. Two directors shall be elected from the district at
2-1 large. A director whose term expires in 1996 may seek election to
2-2 an at-large position or a single-member position for which the
2-3 director qualifies.
2-4 (d) The directors elected to single-member precinct
2-5 positions and the director elected at large who receives the most
2-6 votes in the May 1996 election serve four-year terms. The
2-7 remaining at-large director serves a two-year term.
2-8 (e) At the board election held on the first Saturday in May
2-9 of 1998, one director shall be elected from each of single-member
2-10 precincts numbers two and four to serve four-year terms. One
2-11 director shall be elected from the district at large to serve a
2-12 four-year term. A director whose term expires in 1998 may seek
2-13 election to a vacant at-large position or a single-member precinct
2-14 position for which the director qualifies.
2-15 (f) At each subsequent board election on the first Saturday
2-16 in May of even-numbered years, the appropriate number of directors
2-17 shall be elected so that the board consists of one director elected
2-18 from each of the district's five single-member precincts and two
2-19 directors elected from the district at large.
2-20 SECTION 3. TERMS. Directors of the district serve staggered
2-21 four-year terms, except as provided by Section 2(d) of this Act.
2-22 SECTION 4. QUALIFICATIONS OF DIRECTORS. A person seeking to
2-23 represent a single-member precinct of the district must own land in
2-24 the precinct sought to be represented. A person seeking to
2-25 represent the district at large must own land in the district.
2-26 SECTION 5. APPLICATION FOR PLACEMENT ON BALLOT. A person
2-27 seeking to be placed on the ballot for a board election must:
3-1 (1) indicate that the person wishes to run for a
3-2 position representing the district at large; or
3-3 (2) identify the single-member precinct from which the
3-4 person wishes to run.
3-5 SECTION 6. FINDINGS RELATING TO PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENTS.
3-6 (a) The proper and legal notice of the intention to introduce this
3-7 Act, setting forth the general substance of this Act, has been
3-8 published as provided by law, and the notice and a copy of this Act
3-9 have been furnished to all persons, agencies, officials, or
3-10 entities to which they are required to be furnished by the
3-11 constitution and other laws of this state, including the governor,
3-12 who has submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Natural Resource
3-13 Conservation Commission.
3-14 (b) The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission has
3-15 filed its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor,
3-16 lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of representatives
3-17 within the required time.
3-18 (c) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
3-19 state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
3-20 to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled
3-21 and accomplished.
3-22 SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
3-23 SECTION 8. The importance of this legislation and the
3-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.