1-1     By:  Armbrister, Wentworth                            S.B. No. 1755
 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 9, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; April 9, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1755              By:  Armbrister
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to modification of district lines for the election of
1-11     directors for the Edwards Aquifer Authority.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Article 1, Chapter 626, Acts of the 73rd
1-14     Legislature, Regular Session, 1993 (Article 8280-219, Vernon's
1-15     Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Section 1.094 to read
1-16     as follows:
1-17           Sec. 1.094.  MODIFICATION OF DISTRICT LINES AFTER DECENNIAL
1-18     CENSUS.  (a)  After each federal decennial census, or as needed,
1-19     the board may modify the district lines described in Section 1.093
1-20     of this article.  During March or April of an even-numbered year,
1-21     the board by order may modify the district lines described in
1-22     Section 1.093 of this article to provide that the lines do not
1-23     divide a county election precinct except as necessary to follow the
1-24     authority's jurisdictional boundaries.
1-25           (b)  Modifications under this section may not result in:
1-26                 (1)  the dilution of voting strength of a group covered
1-27     by the federal Voting Rights Act (42 U.S.C. Section 1973c et seq.),
1-28     as amended;
1-29                 (2)  a dilution of representation of a group covered by
1-30     the federal Voting Rights Act (42 U.S.C. Section 1973c et seq.), as
1-31     amended;
1-32                 (3)  discouraging participation by a group covered by
1-33     the federal Voting Rights Act (42 U.S.C. Section 1973c et seq.), as
1-34     amended; or
1-35                 (4)  increasing or decreasing the number of districts
1-36     in any county.
1-37           (c)  A county election precinct established by a county in
1-38     accordance with Chapter 42, Election Code, may not contain
1-39     territory from more than one authority district.
1-40           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-41     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-42     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-43     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-44     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-45     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-46     passage, and it is so enacted.
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