By Burnam                                              H.B. No. 204
         76R727 MI-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the election and terms of office of the board of
 1-3     directors of the Tarrant County Water Control and Improvement
 1-4     District No. 1.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Chapter 268, Acts of the 55th Legislature,
 1-7     Regular Session, 1957 (Article 8280-207, Vernon's Texas Civil
 1-8     Statutes), is amended by adding Sections 1A and 2A to read as
 1-9     follows:
1-10           Sec. 1A.  (a)  The district is governed by a board of seven
1-11     directors elected as prescribed by Chapter 49, Water Code, except
1-12     that the board in office preceding the date of the initial election
1-13     under this section shall establish seven precincts from which the
1-14     directors are elected.
1-15           (b)  Directors shall serve staggered four-year terms.
1-16           (c)  One director shall be elected from each precinct.
1-17           (d)  A person shall indicate on the application for a place
1-18     on the ballot the precinct that the person seeks to represent.
1-19           (e)  The board shall revise each precinct after each federal
1-20     decennial census to reflect population changes.  At the first
1-21     election after the precincts are revised, a new director shall be
1-22     elected from each precinct.  The directors shall draw lots to
1-23     determine which three directors shall serve two-year terms and
1-24     which four directors shall serve four-year terms.
 2-1           Sec. 2A.  (a)  The first election under Section 1A of this
 2-2     Act shall be held in the location described by Subsection (c) of
 2-3     this section and on the first date described by that subsection
 2-4     that occurs after the effective date of this section.
 2-5           (b)  The initial elected directors shall draw lots to
 2-6     determine which three directors shall serve two-year terms and
 2-7     which four directors shall serve four-year terms.
 2-8           (c)  After the initial election of directors, an election
 2-9     shall be held on the same day and in the same location as the
2-10     general election for officers of the municipality with the greatest
2-11     population that is located in the district, and the appropriate
2-12     number of successor directors shall be elected to serve four-year
2-13     terms.
2-14           (d)  The terms of the directors serving on the date of the
2-15     first election under Section 1A of this Act expire when the
2-16     initially elected directors take office.
2-17           SECTION 2.  Notwithstanding Section 1A(a), Chapter 268, Acts
2-18     of the 55th Legislature, 1957 (Article 8280-207, Vernon's Texas
2-19     Civil Statutes), as added by this Act, the board of the Tarrant
2-20     County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 consists of
2-21     five members until the sixth and seventh members elected under
2-22     Section 2A(a) of that Act, as added by this Act, qualify for
2-23     office.
2-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-25     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-26     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-27     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 3-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 3-2     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 3-3     passage, and it is so enacted.