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.