1-1 By: Eiland (Senate Sponsor - Patterson) H.B. No. 3586
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 1997;
1-3 May 13, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
1-4 Resources; May 16, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 16, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the election of the board of supervisors of the Clear
1-9 Creek Drainage District of Galveston County.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 3, Chapter 243, Acts of the 58th
1-12 Legislature, Regular Session, 1963 (Article 8280-285, Vernon's
1-13 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-14 Sec. 3. (a) The management and control of the District is
1-15 hereby vested in a Board of five (5) Supervisors which shall have
1-16 all of the powers and authority and duties conferred and imposed
1-17 upon Boards of Supervisors of fresh water supply districts
1-18 organized under Chapter 53, Water Code, together with all
1-19 amendments thereof and additions thereto. Members of the Board of
1-20 Supervisors shall be elected and shall hold office for staggered
1-21 terms of four [two (2)] years. Position numbers shall be assigned
1-22 to each Supervisor's office, and each Supervisor shall be elected
1-23 by position. [The terms of the Supervisors elected to positions 1
1-24 and 2 shall expire in even-numbered years and the terms of the
1-25 Supervisors elected to positions 3, 4, and 5 shall expire in
1-26 odd-numbered years.] An election shall be held on the first
1-27 Saturday in May [April] in each even-numbered year to elect the
1-28 appropriate number of Supervisors, and the person running for each
1-29 position that receives the most votes for that position is elected
1-30 Supervisor. Supervisors shall take office at the first regular
1-31 meeting of the Board of Supervisors in May [April] after the
1-32 election.
1-33 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c) of this section, if
1-34 a vacancy occurs on the Board of Supervisors, the remaining
1-35 Supervisors shall make an appointment to fill the unexpired term.
1-36 (c) If a vacancy occurs on or before the 65th day before the
1-37 general election for Supervisors held in the next-to-last
1-38 even-numbered year of a term of office:
1-39 (1) a person appointed under Subsection (b) serves
1-40 only until the next general election for Supervisors; and
1-41 (2) the remainder of the unexpired term shall be
1-42 filled at an election held at the next general election for
1-43 Supervisors. [At the election held on April 7, 1979, a Supervisor
1-44 shall be elected from each of the five (5) positions, and the
1-45 persons elected to positions 1 and 2 shall serve until the first
1-46 regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors in 1980, and the
1-47 persons elected to positions 3, 4, and 5 shall serve until the
1-48 first regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors in 1981. No
1-49 person may be elected to serve more than two consecutive two-year
1-50 terms as a member of the Board of Supervisors.]
1-51 SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 50(b), Chapter 715, Acts
1-52 of the 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, supervisors serving
1-53 on the board of the Clear Creek Drainage District of Galveston
1-54 County on the effective date of this Act serve terms as follows:
1-55 (1) a supervisor elected in 1995, or appointed to fill
1-56 an unexpired term for which the election was conducted in 1995,
1-57 serves until the supervisors elected on the first Saturday of May,
1-58 1998, take office; and
1-59 (2) a supervisor elected in 1996, or appointed to fill
1-60 an unexpired term for which the election was conducted in 1996,
1-61 serves until the supervisors elected on the first Saturday of May,
1-62 2000, take office.
1-63 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-64 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,
2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.
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