By Denny                                          H.B. No. 47

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the composition of the lake planning commission of

 1-3     lakes Tawakoni and Ray Roberts.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 231.107, Local Government Code, is

 1-6     amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to

 1-7     read as follows:

 1-8           (a)  A lake planning commission is established for the lake

 1-9     area in the county and is composed of:

1-10                 (1)  three residents of the affected precincts who own

1-11     land in the county, appointed by the county judge of the county;

1-12                 (2)  one resident of each commissioners precinct that

1-13     is affected, appointed by the county commissioner for that

1-14     precinct, and if only one precinct is affected, the commissioner

1-15     shall appoint two; and

1-16                 (3)  the mayor of each municipality the territory or

1-17     extraterritorial jurisdiction of which [that] includes any part of

1-18     the lake area in the county.

1-19           (d)  A mayor serving on the commission may designate another

1-20     person to serve in place of the mayor at one or more commission

1-21     meetings.

1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.