By Cook                                               H.B. No. 2688

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     pertaining to the execution of documents on behalf of certain water

 1-3     districts.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 49.054, Water Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (c)  The president is the chief executive officer of the

 1-8     district, presides at all meetings of the board, and shall execute

 1-9     all documents on behalf of the district unless the board by

1-10     resolution authorizes the general manager or other employee of the

1-11     district to execute a document or documents on behalf of the

1-12     district.  The vice-president shall act as president in case of the

1-13     absence or disability of the president.  The secretary is

1-14     responsible for seeing that all records and books of the district

1-15     are properly kept and may [shall] attest the president's signature

1-16     on [all] documents.

1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.