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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