By Horn                                         H.B. No. 3317

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the board of directors of certain county development

 1-3     districts.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 312.618, Tax Code, is amended by adding

 1-6     Subsection (c) to read as follows:

 1-7           (c)  Directors shall submit personal financial records to the

 1-8     county commissioners on appointment.  Directors shall submit

 1-9     personal financial records annually for the duration of their term

1-10     and for five years after leaving the board.

1-11           SECTION 2.  Section 312.620, Tax Code, is amended to read as

1-12     follows:

1-13           Sec. 312.620.  PERSONS DISQUALIFIED TO SERVE.  Section 49.052

1-14     [50.026], Water Code, relating to disqualification of directors,

1-15     shall apply to directors of districts created under this

1-16     subchapter.

1-17           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-18           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.