By Kuempel H.B. No. 3818
76R8894 MI-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the terms of the trustees of the Canyon Regional Water
1-3 Authority.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 3.04(a) and (b), Chapter 670, Acts of
1-6 the 71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, are amended to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 (a) Trustees serve two-year staggered terms [A trustee
1-9 serves for a one-year term].
1-10 (b) A trustee takes office May 1 of the [each] year in which
1-11 the trustee is appointed.
1-12 SECTION 2. (a) Trustees of the Canyon Regional Water
1-13 Authority appointed in 2000 under Sections 3.03 and 3.04, Chapter
1-14 670, Acts of the 71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, shall
1-15 draw lots to determine which six trustees serve a one-year term and
1-16 which six trustees serve a two-year term.
1-17 (b) Trustees appointed in 2001 and subsequent years serve
1-18 two-year staggered terms.
1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.