1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to validating certain acts of the Garza County Underground

 1-3     and Fresh Water Conservation District.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  VALIDATION.  (a)  The following actions of the

 1-6     Garza County Underground and Fresh Water Conservation District and

 1-7     the district's temporary or initial board of directors are

 1-8     validated and confirmed as if the actions had been done as

 1-9     authorized by law:

1-10                 (1)  the election confirming the creation of the

1-11     district and electing initial directors;

1-12                 (2)  any action of the district's temporary board of

1-13     directors taken to call or conduct the election to confirm the

1-14     creation of the district and elect initial directors; and

1-15                 (3)  any action of the district's initial board of

1-16     directors taken before the effective date of this Act.

1-17           (b)  Each initial director of the Garza County Underground

1-18     and Fresh Water Conservation District, elected in conjunction with

1-19     the district's confirmation election, is confirmed and validated as

1-20     a district director and may serve the term to which the director

1-21     was elected.

1-22           SECTION 2.  FINDINGS RELATED TO BOUNDARIES.  The legislature

1-23     finds that the boundaries of the Garza County Underground and Fresh

1-24     Water Conservation District include the city of Post, Texas,

 2-1     despite any irregularity in calling or holding the election to

 2-2     confirm the district or elect initial directors as provided by

 2-3     Section 10, Chapter 188, Acts of the 74th Legislature, Regular

 2-4     Session, 1995.

 2-5           SECTION 3.  ELECTIONS.  After the effective date of this Act,

 2-6     the board of directors of the Garza County Underground and Fresh

 2-7     Water Conservation District shall call and hold elections to elect

 2-8     district directors in accordance with Sections 6, 7, and 11,

 2-9     Chapter 188, Acts of the 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995.

2-10           SECTION 4.  APPLICABILITY.  This Act does not apply to any

2-11     matter that is the subject of litigation on the effective date of

2-12     this Act.

2-13           SECTION 5.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation

2-14     and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-19     passage, and it is so enacted.

         _______________________________     _______________________________

             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3607 was passed by the House on May

         10, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 140, Nays 0, 2 present, not

         voting.

                                             _______________________________

                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3607 was passed by the Senate on May

         24, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.

                                             _______________________________

                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor