76R8725 WP-F
By King of Uvalde H.B. No. 3481
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3481:
By Counts C.S.H.B. No. 3481
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.