1-1           By:  Ratliff                                     S.B. No. 404

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 31, 1997; February 4, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental

 1-4     Relations; February 13, 1997, reported favorably by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; February 13, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the quorum requirements for the board of directors of

 1-9     the Cypress Valley Navigation District.

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

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 7, Chapter 715, Acts of the 59th

1-12     Legislature, Regular Session, 1965 (Article 8280-340, Vernon's

1-13     Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:

1-14           Sec. 7.  At the first meeting of the Board after this Act

1-15     becomes effective and the initial Board of Directors, as herein

1-16     designated, have qualified for and have taken office, and at the

1-17     first meeting of the Board held in the month of January of each

1-18     odd-numbered year commencing with the year 1965, there shall be

1-19     appointed by majority of the Board of Directors from its membership

1-20     a Chairman, a Vice Chairman, a Secretary-Treasurer (these two

1-21     offices to be combined) and, if deemed proper, an Assistant

1-22     Secretary and an Assistant Treasurer who need not be a member of

1-23     the Board of Directors and who may be granted limited powers in the

1-24     bylaws.  The officers so appointed shall serve for a term of two

1-25     (2) years and until their successors have been appointed except

1-26     that the Assistant Secretary and the Assistant Treasurer, if such

1-27     officers are appointed shall hold office at the pleasure of the

1-28     Board.  A quorum at all meetings of the Board of Directors shall

1-29     consist of not less than six (6) [eight (8)] members.  All regular

1-30     and special meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held as

1-31     provided for by the bylaws and notice of all such meetings shall be

1-32     given as required by the bylaws.

1-33           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-34     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-35     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-36     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-37     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-38     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-39     passage, and it is so enacted.

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