1-1 By: Madla S.B. No. 1647
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed April 10, 1995; April 10, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 April 28, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
1-5 Nays 0; April 28, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the governance of the Bexar-Medina-Atascosa Counties
1-9 Water Control and Improvement District No. 1.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. In this Act:
1-12 (1) "Board" means the board of directors of the
1-13 Bexar-Medina-Atascosa Counties Water Control and Improvement
1-14 District No. 1.
1-15 (2) "District" means the Bexar-Medina-Atascosa
1-16 Counties Water Control and Improvement District No. 1.
1-17 SECTION 2. CONVERSION TO SEVEN-MEMBER BOARD. (a) The board
1-18 in office on the effective date of this Act shall divide the
1-19 district into five numbered single-member precincts not later than
1-20 January 1, 1996.
1-21 (b) The division of the district into single-member
1-22 precincts does not affect the terms of directors in office on the
1-23 effective date of this Act. Each director serves until the
1-24 director's term expires. On expiration of a director's term, the
1-25 director's position is converted to a single-member precinct
1-26 position.
1-27 (c) At the board election held on the first Saturday in May
1-28 of 1996, five directors shall be elected. One director shall be
1-29 elected from each of single-member precincts numbers one, three,
1-30 and five. Two directors shall be elected from the district at
1-31 large. A director whose term expires in 1996 may seek election to
1-32 an at-large position or a single-member position for which the
1-33 director qualifies.
1-34 (d) The directors elected to single-member precinct
1-35 positions and the director elected at large who receives the most
1-36 votes in the May 1996 election serve four-year terms. The
1-37 remaining at-large director serves a two-year term.
1-38 (e) At the board election held on the first Saturday in May
1-39 of 1998, one director shall be elected from each of single-member
1-40 precincts numbers two and four to serve four-year terms. One
1-41 director shall be elected from the district at large to serve a
1-42 four-year term. A director whose term expires in 1998 may seek
1-43 election to a vacant at-large position or a single-member precinct
1-44 position for which the director qualifies.
1-45 (f) At each subsequent board election on the first Saturday
1-46 in May of even-numbered years, the appropriate number of directors
1-47 shall be elected so that the board consists of one director elected
1-48 from each of the district's five single-member precincts and two
1-49 directors elected from the district at large.
1-50 SECTION 3. TERMS. Directors of the district serve staggered
1-51 four-year terms, except as provided by Subsection (d) of Section 2
1-52 of this Act.
1-53 SECTION 4. QUALIFICATIONS OF DIRECTORS. A person seeking to
1-54 represent a single-member precinct of the district must own land in
1-55 the precinct sought to be represented. A person seeking to
1-56 represent the district at large must own land in the district.
1-57 SECTION 5. APPLICATION FOR PLACEMENT ON BALLOT. A person
1-58 seeking to be placed on the ballot for a board election must:
1-59 (1) indicate that the person wishes to run for a
1-60 position representing the district at large; or
1-61 (2) identify the single-member precinct from which the
1-62 person wishes to run.
1-63 SECTION 6. FINDINGS RELATING TO PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENTS.
1-64 (a) The proper and legal notice of the intention to introduce this
1-65 Act, setting forth the general substance of this Act, has been
1-66 published as provided by law, and the notice and a copy of this Act
1-67 have been furnished to all persons, agencies, officials, or
1-68 entities to which they are required to be furnished by the
2-1 constitution and other laws of this state, including the governor,
2-2 who has submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Natural Resource
2-3 Conservation Commission.
2-4 (b) The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission has
2-5 filed its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor,
2-6 lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of representatives
2-7 within the required time.
2-8 (c) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
2-9 state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
2-10 to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled
2-11 and accomplished.
2-12 SECTION 7. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect September
2-13 1, 1995.
2-14 SECTION 8. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation
2-15 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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