1-1 By: Madden (Senate Sponsor - Shapiro) H.B. No. 3592
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 17, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 17, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the terms of the directors of the Seis Lagos Utility
1-9 District.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 5(e), Chapter 527, Acts of the 71st
1-12 Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (e) The district shall hold an election in the district on
1-14 the first Saturday in May of each even-numbered year to elect the
1-15 appropriate number of directors to the board. Directors serve
1-16 staggered four-year [two-year] terms [with the terms of two
1-17 directors expiring each odd-numbered year and the terms of three
1-18 directors expiring each even-numbered year]. Directors serve until
1-19 their successors are elected and have qualified.
1-20 SECTION 2. (a) The terms of the two directors elected at
1-21 the May 1995 election expire on the first Saturday in May 1998 as
1-22 provided by Section 50(b), Chapter 715, Acts of the 74th
1-23 Legislature, Regular Session, 1995.
1-24 (b) The terms of the three directors elected in May 1996
1-25 expire on the first Saturday in May 2000 as provided by Section
1-26 49.103, Water Code.
1-27 (c) The directors elected at the election held on the first
1-28 Saturday in May 1998 and in subsequent even-numbered years serve
1-29 four-year terms.
1-30 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-31 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-32 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-33 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-34 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-35 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-36 passage, and it is so enacted.
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