1-1 By: Price (Senate Sponsor - Galloway) H.B. No. 3540
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1997;
1-3 May 9, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 17, 1997, reported adversely, with
1-5 favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11,
1-6 Nays 0; May 17, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3540 By: Galloway
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the election of commissioners of the Port of Beaumont
1-11 Navigation District of Jefferson County.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Section 9(d), Chapter 147, Acts of the 51st
1-14 Legislature, Regular Session, 1949, is amended to read as follows:
1-15 (d) One commissioner shall be elected from each of the four
1-16 wards established under Section 10 of this Act by the qualified
1-17 voters of that ward. Two commissioners shall be elected at large
1-18 by the qualified voters of the district [Commissioners are elected
1-19 by the voters of the District at large, and each ward is entitled
1-20 to representation on the Board of Port Commissioners by a resident
1-21 of the ward].
1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-27 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-28 passage, and it is so enacted.
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