1-1     By:  Zbranek (Senate Sponsor - Bernsen)               H.B. No. 3823
 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 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to appointment of commissioners of the Chambers-Liberty
 1-9     Counties Navigation District.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  (a)  Notwithstanding Section 62.072, Water Code,
1-12     the navigation and canal commissioners of Chambers-Liberty Counties
1-13     Navigation District are appointed as provided by this section.
1-14           (b)  The commissioners court of Chambers County by a majority
1-15     vote shall appoint two commissioners.  The commissioners court of
1-16     Liberty County by a majority vote shall appoint two commissioners.
1-17     The two commissioners courts shall appoint a fifth commissioner at
1-18     a joint meeting of the two commissioners courts called and presided
1-19     over by the county judge of Chambers County.
1-20           (c)  Each of the county judges and county commissioners
1-21     composing the commissioners courts of both counties is entitled to
1-22     one vote in appointing the fifth commissioner.  A majority vote of
1-23     those present at the meeting is sufficient to make the appointment.
1-24           (d)  Notwithstanding Section 62.065, Water Code, members of
1-25     the commission of the Chambers-Liberty Counties Navigation District
1-26     serve staggered terms of four years.
1-27           SECTION 2.  (a)  On January 15, 2000, the commissioners court
1-28     of each county in the Chambers-Liberty Counties Navigation District
1-29     shall appoint members to the navigation and canal commission as
1-30     provided by Section 1 of this Act.  One of the members appointed by
1-31     each county serves a term that expires January 15, 2002.  One of
1-32     the members appointed by each county and the member appointed by
1-33     the two counties jointly serve terms that expire January 15, 2004.
1-34           (b)  The term of a navigation and canal commissioner of the
1-35     Chambers-Liberty Counties Navigation District serving immediately
1-36     before the effective date of this Act expires January 15, 2000.
1-37     This Act does not prohibit a person who is a navigation and canal
1-38     commissioner on the effective date of this Act from being
1-39     reappointed to the commission.
1-40           SECTION 3.  (a)  The proper and legal notice of the intention
1-41     to introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this
1-42     Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a
1-43     copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies,
1-44     officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished
1-45     by the constitution and other laws of this state, including the
1-46     governor, who has submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Natural
1-47     Resource Conservation Commission.
1-48           (b)  The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission has
1-49     filed its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor,
1-50     lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of representatives
1-51     within the required time.
1-52           (c)  All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
1-53     state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
1-54     to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled
1-55     and accomplished.
1-56           SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2000.
1-57           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-58     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-59     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-60     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-61     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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