By:  Ratliff                                           S.B. No. 533
         99S0149/2                           
                                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.