By Harris S.B. No. 624 76R6820 CMR-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to certain crime control and prevention districts. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 363, Local Government Code, 1-5 is amended by adding Section 363.1015 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 363.1015. ALTERNATE FORMS OF APPOINTMENT: BOARD OF 1-7 DIRECTORS. (a) The governing body of a municipality or county by 1-8 resolution may appoint the governing body's membership as the board 1-9 of directors of the district. 1-10 (b) In a district for which the board is not appointed under 1-11 Subsection (a), the governing body of the municipality or county 1-12 may create a board by having each member of the governing body 1-13 appoint one director to the board, subject to confirmation by the 1-14 governing body. 1-15 (c) A director appointed under Subsection (b) serves: 1-16 (1) at the pleasure of the governing body of the 1-17 municipality or county; and 1-18 (2) for a term concurrent with the term of the 1-19 appointing member. 1-20 SECTION 2. Section 363.155, Local Government Code, is 1-21 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-22 (d) Subsection (c) does not apply to a district that 1-23 contains only one municipality. 1-24 SECTION 3. Subchapter F, Chapter 363, Local Government Code, 2-1 is amended by adding Section 363.2515 to read as follows: 2-2 Sec. 363.2515. CONTINUATION OF DISTRICT: CERTAIN POLITICAL 2-3 SUBDIVISIONS. (a) The board or the commissioners court of the 2-4 county or governing body of the municipality that created the 2-5 district may specify the number of years for which a district 2-6 should be continued. 2-7 (b) A district may be continued under Subsection (a) only 2-8 for 5, 10, 15, or 20 years. 2-9 (c) For a continuation referendum under this section, the 2-10 ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the 2-11 proposition: "Whether the _________ Crime Control and Prevention 2-12 District should be continued for _______ years and the crime 2-13 control and prevention district sales tax should be continued for 2-14 __________ years." 2-15 SECTION 4. Section 363.260(a), Local Government Code, is 2-16 amended to read as follows: 2-17 (a) If less than a majority of the votes cast in a 2-18 continuation referendum are for the continuation of a district or 2-19 if a majority of the votes cast in a dissolution referendum are for 2-20 dissolution of the district: 2-21 (1) the board shall certify that fact to the secretary 2-22 of state not later than the 10th day after the date of the canvass 2-23 of the returns; and 2-24 (2) the district is dissolved and ceases to operate on 2-25 the earlier of: 2-26 (A) the last day of the district's fiscal year; 2-27 or 3-1 (B) the 180th day after the date that the 3-2 continuation or dissolution referendum is held. 3-3 SECTION 5. (a) Section 363.101(c), Local Government Code, is 3-4 repealed. 3-5 (b) Sections 3 and 4, Chapter 1248, Acts of the 75th 3-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, are repealed. 3-7 (c) To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over 3-8 another Act of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999, 3-9 relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted 3-10 codes. 3-11 SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 3-12 SECTION 7. The importance of this legislation and the 3-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 3-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 3-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.