1-1     By:  Uher (Senate Sponsor - Jackson)                  H.B. No. 3568
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
 1-3     April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Natural Resources; May 5, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 5, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the establishment of the Office of District Treasurer
 1-9     of Brazos River Harbor Navigation District.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Chapter 55, Acts of the 40th Legislature, 1st
1-12     Called Session, 1927, is amended by adding Sections 1a and 1b to
1-13     read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 1a.  There is hereby established the Office of District
1-15     Treasurer of Brazos River Harbor Navigation District of Brazoria
1-16     County, which office shall be held by the person who, from time to
1-17     time, shall be appointed by the Board of Navigation and Canal
1-18     Commissioners of said Navigation District.  The Navigation District
1-19     Treasurer shall perform all duties for the District as have
1-20     previously been performed by the County Treasurer of Brazoria
1-21     County.  The Tax Assessor and Collector for Brazoria County or such
1-22     other official performing the duties of Tax Assessor and Collector
1-23     for said Navigation District shall hereafter deposit all taxes
1-24     collected for Brazos River Harbor Navigation District in the
1-25     depository bank that is, from time to time, designated as
1-26     depository for Brazoria County and forthwith transfer and deposit
1-27     said funds to the account of said District in the depository bank
1-28     that is, from time to time, designated as depository for said
1-29     Navigation District.
1-30           Sec. 1b.  Before receiving any District funds from any
1-31     source, the District Treasurer shall execute a good and sufficient
1-32     bond payable to the Board of Navigation and Canal Commissioners for
1-33     the benefit of the District in an amount fixed and approved by said
1-34     Board.
1-35           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-36           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-37     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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