By Counts H.B. No. 3607 75R13677 JJT-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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.