AN ACT
 1-1     relating to modification of district lines for the election of
 1-2     directors for the Edwards Aquifer Authority.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Article 1, Chapter 626, Acts of the 73rd
 1-5     Legislature, Regular Session, 1993 (Article 8280-219, Vernon's
 1-6     Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Section 1.094 to read
 1-7     as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 1.094.  MODIFICATION OF DISTRICT LINES AFTER DECENNIAL
 1-9     CENSUS.  (a)  After each federal decennial census, or as needed,
1-10     the board may modify the district lines described in Section 1.093
1-11     of this article.  During March or April of an even-numbered year,
1-12     the board by order may modify the district lines described in
1-13     Section 1.093 of this article to provide that the lines do not
1-14     divide a county election precinct except as necessary to follow the
1-15     authority's jurisdictional boundaries.
1-16           (b)  Modifications under this section may not result in:
1-17                 (1)  the dilution of voting strength of a group covered
1-18     by the federal Voting Rights Act (42 U.S.C. Section 1973c et seq.),
1-19     as amended;
1-20                 (2)  a dilution of representation of a group covered by
1-21     the federal Voting Rights Act (42 U.S.C. Section 1973c et seq.), as
1-22     amended;
1-23                 (3)  discouraging participation by a group covered by
1-24     the federal Voting Rights Act (42 U.S.C. Section 1973c et seq.), as
 2-1     amended; or
 2-2                 (4)  increasing or decreasing the number of districts
 2-3     in any county.
 2-4           (c)  A county election precinct established by a county in
 2-5     accordance with Chapter 42, Election Code, may not contain
 2-6     territory from more than one authority district.
 2-7           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-8     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-9     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-12     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-13     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1755 passed the Senate on
         April 19, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1755 passed the House on
         May 6, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 145, Nays 0, one present
         not voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor