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. 1-62 * * * * *