1-1     By:  Hunter (Senate Sponsor - Ellis)                  H.B. No. 1031
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 1999;
 1-3     March 30, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-4     Affairs; April 30, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 30, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the filing of sworn statements prescribed by the
 1-9     constitution for public office and made by the directors of certain
1-10     special districts.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 36.055(d), Water Code, is amended to read
1-13     as follows:
1-14           (d)  The sworn statement shall be filed as prescribed by the
1-15     constitution.  The[,] bond[,] and oath shall be filed with the
1-16     district and retained in its records.  A duplicate original of the
1-17     [sworn statement and the] oath shall also be filed with the
1-18     secretary of state within 10 days after its [their] execution and
1-19     need not be filed before the new director begins to perform the
1-20     duties of office.
1-21           SECTION 2.  Section 49.055(d), Water Code, is amended to read
1-22     as follows:
1-23           (d)  The sworn statement shall be filed as prescribed by the
1-24     constitution.  The[,] bond[,] and oath shall be filed with the
1-25     district and retained in its records.  A duplicate original of the
1-26     [sworn statement and the] oath shall also be filed with the
1-27     secretary of state within 10 days after its [their] execution and
1-28     need not be filed before the new director begins to perform the
1-29     duties of office.
1-30           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-31     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-32     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-33     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-34     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-35     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-36     passage, and it is so enacted.
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