1-1     By:  Jackson                                          S.B. No. 1659
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
 1-4     April 15, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 5,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 15, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the establishment of the office of district treasurer
 1-9     of Brazos River Harbor Navigation District of Brazoria County.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Chapter 55, Acts of the 40th Legislature, 1st
1-12     Called Session, 1927, is amended by adding Sections 4d and 4e to
1-13     read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 4d.  There is hereby established the office of district
1-15     treasurer of Brazos River Harbor Navigation District of Brazoria
1-16     County, which office shall be held by the person who, from time to
1-17     time, shall be appointed by the Board of Navigation and Canal
1-18     Commissioners of the District.  The district treasurer shall
1-19     perform all duties for the District as have previously been
1-20     performed by the County Treasurer of Brazoria County.
1-21           The Tax Assessor and Collector for Brazoria County or such
1-22     other official performing the duties of Tax Assessor and Collector
1-23     for the District shall hereafter deposit all taxes collected for
1-24     the District in the depository bank that is, from time to time,
1-25     designated as depository for Brazoria County and forthwith transfer
1-26     and deposit said funds to the account of the District in the
1-27     depository bank that is from time to time designated as depository
1-28     for the District.
1-29           Sec. 4e.  Before receiving any District funds from any
1-30     source, the district treasurer shall execute a good and sufficient
1-31     bond payable to the Board of Navigation and Canal Commissioners for
1-32     the benefit of the District in an amount fixed and approved by the
1-33     Board.
1-34           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-35           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-36     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-37     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-38     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-39     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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