By King of Uvalde                                     H.B. No. 3481
         76R8725 WP-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the board of directors and the validation of certain
 1-3     acts of the Bexar-Medina-Atascosa Counties Water Control and
 1-4     Improvement District No. 1.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Sections 2(c) and (e), Chapter 544, Acts of the
 1-7     74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, are amended to read as
 1-8     follows:
 1-9           (c)  At the board election held on the first Saturday in May
1-10     of 1996, five directors shall be elected.  One director shall be
1-11     elected from each of single-member precincts numbers two [one],
1-12     three, and four [five].  Two directors shall be elected from the
1-13     district at large.  A director whose term expires in 1996 may seek
1-14     election to an at-large position or a single-member position for
1-15     which the director qualifies.
1-16           (e)  At the board election held on the first Saturday in May
1-17     of 1998, one director shall be elected from each of single-member
1-18     precincts numbers one [two] and five [four] to serve four-year
1-19     terms.  One director shall be elected from the district at large to
1-20     serve a four-year term.  A director whose term expires in 1998 may
1-21     seek election to a vacant at-large position or a single-member
1-22     precinct position for which the director qualifies.
1-23           SECTION 2.  (a)  All governmental acts and proceedings of the
1-24     district not excepted by this Act are validated as of the dates on
 2-1     which they occurred.  This validation includes the validation of a
 2-2     governmental act or proceeding relating to the election of board
 2-3     members for the district.
 2-4           (b)  This Act does not validate any governmental acts or
 2-5     proceedings that were void or which, under the statutes of this
 2-6     state at the time the actions or proceedings occurred, were a
 2-7     misdemeanor or felony.
 2-8           (c)  This Act does not apply to a matter that on the
 2-9     effective date of this Act:
2-10                 (1)  is involved in litigation if the litigation
2-11     ultimately results in the matter being held invalid by a final
2-12     judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction; or
2-13                 (2)  has been held invalid by a final judgment of a
2-14     court of competent jurisdiction.
2-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-21     passage, and it is so enacted.