By Zbranek                                            H.B. No. 3823
         76R11730 WP-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to appointment of commissioners of the Chambers-Liberty
 1-3     Counties Navigation District.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  (a)  Notwithstanding Section 62.072, Water Code,
 1-6     the navigation and canal commissioners of Chambers-Liberty Counties
 1-7     Navigation District are appointed as provided by this section.
 1-8           (b)  The commissioners court of Chambers County by a majority
 1-9     vote shall appoint two commissioners.  The commissioners court of
1-10     Liberty County by a majority vote shall appoint two commissioners.
1-11     The two commissioners courts shall appoint a fifth commissioner at
1-12     a joint meeting of the two commissioners courts called and presided
1-13     over by the county judge of Chambers County.
1-14           (c)  Each of the county judges and county commissioners
1-15     composing the commissioners courts of both counties is entitled to
1-16     one vote in appointing the fifth commissioner.  A majority vote of
1-17     those present at the meeting is sufficient to make the appointment.
1-18           (d)  Notwithstanding Section 62.065, Water Code, members of
1-19     the commission of the Chambers-Liberty Counties Navigation District
1-20     serve staggered terms of four years.
1-21           SECTION 2.  (a)  On January 15, 2000, the commissioners court
1-22     of each county in the Chambers-Liberty Counties Navigation District
1-23     shall appoint members to the navigation and canal commission as
1-24     provided by Section 1 of this Act.  One of the members appointed by
 2-1     each county serves a term that expires January 15, 2002.  One of
 2-2     the members appointed by each county and the member appointed by
 2-3     the two counties jointly serve terms that expire January 15, 2004.
 2-4           (b)  The term of a navigation and canal commissioner of the
 2-5     Chambers-Liberty Counties Navigation District serving immediately
 2-6     before the effective date of this Act expires January 15, 2000.
 2-7     This Act does not prohibit a person who is a navigation and canal
 2-8     commissioner on the effective date of this Act from being
 2-9     reappointed to the commission.
2-10           SECTION 3.  (a)  The proper and legal notice of the intention
2-11     to introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this
2-12     Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a
2-13     copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies,
2-14     officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished
2-15     by the constitution and other laws of this state, including the
2-16     governor, who has submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Natural
2-17     Resource Conservation Commission.
2-18           (b)  The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission has
2-19     filed its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor,
2-20     lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of representatives
2-21     within the required time.
2-22           (c)  All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
2-23     state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
2-24     to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled
2-25     and accomplished.
2-26           SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2000.
2-27           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
 3-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 3-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 3-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 3-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.