1-1     By:  King of Uvalde (Senate Sponsor - Madla)          H.B. No. 3481
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1999;
 1-3     May 3, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
 1-4     Resources; May 13, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 13, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                By:  Brown
 1-7     Amend HB3481 as follows:
 1-8     On page 1, between Line 49 and Line 50, insert the following:
 1-9     "(d)  The provisions of Section 49.056(c), Water Code, do not apply
1-10     to the District."
1-11                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-12                                   AN ACT
1-13     relating to the board of directors and the validation of certain
1-14     acts of the Bexar-Medina-Atascosa Counties Water Control and
1-15     Improvement District No. 1.
1-16           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-17           SECTION 1.  Sections 2(c) and (e), Chapter 544, Acts of the
1-18     74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, are amended to read as
1-19     follows:
1-20           (c)  At the board election held on the first Saturday in May
1-21     of 1996, five directors shall be elected.  One director shall be
1-22     elected from each of single-member precincts numbers two [one],
1-23     three, and four [five].  Two directors shall be elected from the
1-24     district at large.  A director whose term expires in 1996 may seek
1-25     election to an at-large position or a single-member position for
1-26     which the director qualifies.
1-27           (e)  At the board election held on the first Saturday in May
1-28     of 1998, one director shall be elected from each of single-member
1-29     precincts numbers one [two] and five [four] to serve four-year
1-30     terms.  One director shall be elected from the district at large to
1-31     serve a four-year term.  A director whose term expires in 1998 may
1-32     seek election to a vacant at-large position or a single-member
1-33     precinct position for which the director qualifies.
1-34           SECTION 2.  (a)  All governmental acts and proceedings of the
1-35     district not excepted by this Act are validated as of the dates on
1-36     which they occurred.  This validation includes the validation of a
1-37     governmental act or proceeding relating to the election of board
1-38     members for the district.
1-39           (b)  This Act does not validate any governmental acts or
1-40     proceedings that were void or which, under the statutes of this
1-41     state at the time the actions or proceedings occurred, were a
1-42     misdemeanor or felony.
1-43           (c)  This Act does not apply to a matter that on the
1-44     effective date of this Act:
1-45                 (1)  is involved in litigation if the litigation
1-46     ultimately results in the matter being held invalid by a final
1-47     judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction; or
1-48                 (2)  has been held invalid by a final judgment of a
1-49     court of competent jurisdiction.
1-50           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-51     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-52     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-53     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-54     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-55     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-56     passage, and it is so enacted.
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