By:  Armbrister                                       S.B. No. 1693
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to authorizing the division of the Gonzales County
    1-2  Underground Water Conservation District into precincts, authorizing
    1-3  the board to make expenditures, and validating certain actions.
    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  Gonzales County Underground Water Conservation District.
    1-8              (2)  "District" means the Gonzales County Underground
    1-9  Water Conservation District.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  DIVISION OF DISTRICT INTO SINGLE-MEMBER
   1-11  PRECINCTS.  The board may from time to time divide the district
   1-12  into five precincts of substantially equal population for the
   1-13  purpose of electing directors.  Notwithstanding Section 52.102,
   1-14  Water Code, the board may divide territory contained in a municipal
   1-15  corporation within the district into as many precincts as necessary
   1-16  to obtain precincts of substantially equal population.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  AUTHORITY OF BOARD COMPOSED OF TEMPORARY
   1-18  DIRECTORS.  Temporary directors serving on the board on the
   1-19  effective date of this Act may authorize and make, through board
   1-20  action, all expenditures necessary to conduct district business
   1-21  until permanent directors are elected and qualify for office.
   1-22        SECTION 4.  VALIDATION.  The creation of the district and all
   1-23  resolutions, orders, and other acts or attempted acts of the board,
   1-24  including the board composed of temporary directors, are validated
    2-1  in all respects.  The creation of the district and all resolutions,
    2-2  orders, and other acts or attempted acts of the board, including
    2-3  the board composed of temporary directors, are valid as though they
    2-4  originally had been legally authorized or accomplished.
    2-5        SECTION 5.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
    2-6  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-10  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-11  passage, and it is so enacted.