1-1 By: Kuempel (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth) H.B. No. 3818
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999;
1-3 May 6, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
1-4 Resources; May 12, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 12, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the terms of the trustees of the Canyon Regional Water
1-9 Authority.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Sections 3.04(a) and (b), Chapter 670, Acts of
1-12 the 71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, are amended to read as
1-13 follows:
1-14 (a) Trustees serve two-year staggered terms [A trustee
1-15 serves for a one-year term].
1-16 (b) A trustee takes office May 1 of the [each] year in which
1-17 the trustee is appointed.
1-18 SECTION 2. (a) Trustees of the Canyon Regional Water
1-19 Authority appointed in 2000 under Sections 3.03 and 3.04, Chapter
1-20 670, Acts of the 71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, shall
1-21 draw lots to determine which six trustees serve a one-year term and
1-22 which six trustees serve a two-year term.
1-23 (b) Trustees appointed in 2001 and subsequent years serve
1-24 two-year staggered terms.
1-25 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-30 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-31 passage, and it is so enacted.
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