By:  Lindsay                                          S.B. No. 1501
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the appointment of directors and chairman of the board
 1-2     of directors of a sports and community venue district.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 335.031 of the Texas Local Government
 1-5     Code is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (a)  A district is governed by a board of at least four
 1-7     directors.
 1-8           (b)  The board and the chairman of the board are [is] appointed
 1-9     by the city council [mayors] or commissioners court [county judges], or
1-10     both as appropriate, of the political subdivisions that create the
1-11     district in accordance with the concurrent order.
1-12           (c)  Directors serve staggered two-year terms.  A director
1-13     may be removed by the appointing city council [mayor] or
1-14     commissioners court [county judge] at any time without cause.
1-15     Successor directors are appointed in the same manner as the
1-16     original appointees.
1-17           (d)  To qualify to serve as a director, a person must be a
1-18     resident of the appointing political subdivision.  An employee,
1-19     officer, or member of the governing body of the appointing
1-20     political subdivision may serve as a director, but may not have a
1-21     personal interest in a contract executed by the district other than
1-22     as an employee, officer, or member of the governing body of the
 2-1     political subdivision.
 2-2           SECTION 2.  In the concurrent order creating any such
 2-3     district, the commissioners court stands in the place of the county
 2-4     judge and the city council stands in the place of the mayor
 2-5     regarding powers of appointment of directors and the chairman of
 2-6     the board of directors.
 2-7           SECTION 3.  This act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-8           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-9     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.