By King of Uvalde                                     H.B. No. 3481
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the governance and the validation of acts and
 1-3     proceedings 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.  Section 2, Chapter 544, Acts of the 74th
 1-7     Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, is amended to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 2.  CONVERSION TO SEVEN-MEMBER BOARD.  (a)  The board in
 1-9     office on the effective date of this Act shall divide the district
1-10     into five numbered single-member precincts not later than January
1-11     1, 1996.
1-12           (b)  The division of the district into single-member
1-13     precincts does not affect the terms of directors in office on the
1-14     effective date of this Act.  Each director serves until the
1-15     director's term expires.  On expiration of a director's term, the
1-16     director's position is converted to a single-member precinct
1-17     position.
1-18           (c)  At the board election held on the first Saturday in May
1-19     of 1996, five directors shall be elected.  One director shall be
1-20     elected from each of single-member precincts numbers two [one],
1-21     four [three], and five.  Two directors shall be elected from the
 2-1     district at large.  A director whose term expires in 1996 may seek
 2-2     election to an at-large position or a single-member position for
 2-3     which the director qualifies.
 2-4           (d)  The directors elected to single-member precinct
 2-5     positions and the director elected at large who receives the most
 2-6     votes in the May 1996 election serve four-year terms.  The
 2-7     remaining at-large director serves a two-year term.
 2-8           (e)  At the board election held on the first Saturday in May
 2-9     of 1998, one director shall be elected from each of single-member
2-10     precincts numbers one [two] and three [four] to serve four-year
2-11     terms.  One director shall be elected from the district at large to
2-12     serve a four-year term.  A director whose term expires in 1998 may
2-13     seek election to a vacant at-large position or a single-member
2-14     precinct position for which the director qualifies.
2-15           (f)  At each subsequent board election on the first Saturday
2-16     in May of even-numbered years, the appropriate number of directors
2-17     shall be elected so that the board consists of one director elected
2-18     from each of the district's five single-member precincts and two
2-19     directors elected from the district at large.
2-20           SECTION 2.  Chapter 544, Acts of the 74th Legislature,
2-21     Regular Session, 1995, is amended by adding Section 2A to read as
2-22     follows:
2-23           Sec. 2A.  VALIDATION OF ACTS AND PROCEEDINGS.  (a)  All
2-24     governmental acts and proceedings of the district not excepted by
2-25     this Act are validated as of the dates on which they occurred.
 3-1           (b)  Board elections held on the first Saturday in May of
 3-2     1996, and the first Saturday in May of 1998, including all
 3-3     proceedings related to these board elections, are validated as of
 3-4     the dates on which they occurred.
 3-5           (c)  This Act does not validate any governmental acts or
 3-6     proceedings that were void or which, under the statutes of this
 3-7     state at the time the actions or proceedings occurred, were a
 3-8     misdemeanor or felony.
 3-9           (d)  This Act does not apply to any matter that on the
3-10     effective date of this Act:
3-11                 (1)  is involved in litigation if the litigation
3-12     ultimately results in the matter being held invalid by a final
3-13     judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction; or
3-14                 (2)  has been held invalid by a final judgment of a
3-15     court of competent jurisdiction.
3-16           SECTION 3.  Proof of publication of the constitutional notice
3-17     required in the enactment of this Act under the provisions of
3-18     Section 59(d), Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and the statutory
3-19     notice required by Chapter 313, Government Code, have been made in
3-20     the manner provided therein and a copy of the notice and bill as
3-21     originally introduced have been delivered to the governor of the
3-22     State of Texas, as required in such constitutional provision, and
3-23     to all other persons, agencies, officials, or entities required to
3-24     be furnished by the constitution and other laws of the state, and
3-25     that notice and delivery are found and declared to be proper and
 4-1     sufficient to satisfy those requirements.  The Texas Natural
 4-2     Resource Conservation Commission has filed its recommendations
 4-3     relating to this Act with the governor, lieutenant governor, and
 4-4     speaker of the house of representatives within the required time.
 4-5     All other procedural requirements for the notice, introduction, and
 4-6     passage of this Act have been fulfilled and accomplished.
 4-7           SECTION 4.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
 4-8     and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 4-9     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-10     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-11     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
4-12     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
4-13     passage, and it is so enacted.