1-1     By:  Counts (Senate Sponsor - Brown)                  H.B. No. 3607

 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 validating certain acts of the Garza County Underground

 1-9     and Fresh Water Conservation District.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  VALIDATION.  (a)  The following actions of the

1-12     Garza County Underground and Fresh Water Conservation District and

1-13     the district's temporary or initial board of directors are

1-14     validated and confirmed as if the actions had been done as

1-15     authorized by law:

1-16                 (1)  the election confirming the creation of the

1-17     district and electing initial directors;

1-18                 (2)  any action of the district's temporary board of

1-19     directors taken to call or conduct the election to confirm the

1-20     creation of the district and elect initial directors; and

1-21                 (3)  any action of the district's initial board of

1-22     directors taken before the effective date of this Act.

1-23           (b)  Each initial director of the Garza County Underground

1-24     and Fresh Water Conservation District, elected in conjunction with

1-25     the district's confirmation election, is confirmed and validated as

1-26     a district director and may serve the term to which the director

1-27     was elected.

1-28           SECTION 2.  FINDINGS RELATED TO BOUNDARIES.  The legislature

1-29     finds that the boundaries of the Garza County Underground and Fresh

1-30     Water Conservation District include the city of Post, Texas,

1-31     despite any irregularity in calling or holding the election to

1-32     confirm the district or elect initial directors as provided by

1-33     Section 10, Chapter 188, Acts of the 74th Legislature, Regular

1-34     Session, 1995.

1-35           SECTION 3.  ELECTIONS.  After the effective date of this Act,

1-36     the board of directors of the Garza County Underground and Fresh

1-37     Water Conservation District shall call and hold elections to elect

1-38     district directors in accordance with Sections 6, 7, and 11,

1-39     Chapter 188, Acts of the 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995.

1-40           SECTION 4.  APPLICABILITY.  This Act does not apply to any

1-41     matter that is the subject of litigation on the effective date of

1-42     this Act.

1-43           SECTION 5.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation

1-44     and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-45     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-46     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-47     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-48     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-49     passage, and it is so enacted.

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