By: Ratliff S.B. No. 533 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to annual and special meetings and elections for water 1-2 supply and sewer service corporations. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 67.007, Water Code, is amended to read as 1-5 follows: 1-6 Sec. 67.007. ANNUAL OR SPECIAL MEETING. (a) The annual 1-7 meeting of the members or shareholders of the corporation must be 1-8 held between January 1 and May 1 at a time specified by the bylaws 1-9 or the board. 1-10 (b) The board shall adopt written procedures for conducting 1-11 an annual or special meeting of the members or shareholders, which 1-12 shall include the following: 1-13 (1) notification to eligible members or shareholders 1-14 of the proposed agenda, location, and date of the meeting; 1-15 (2) establishment of a quorum consisting of proxies 1-16 and the votes of members or shareholders present; 1-17 (3) nomination and election procedures; 1-18 (4) approval of the proxy and ballot form to be used; 1-19 and 1-20 (5) validation of eligible voters, proxies, ballots, 1-21 and election results. 1-22 (c) The board shall adopt an official proxy and ballot form 1-23 to be used in conducting the business of the corporation at any 1-24 annual or special meeting. No other proxy or ballot form will be 2-1 valid. Proxies and ballots from members or shareholders are 2-2 confidential and are exempted from disclosure by the corporation 2-3 until after the date of the relevant election. 2-4 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-10 passage, and it is so enacted.