By Hawley H.B. No. 1972
77R5496 SGA-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the election dates for directors of the Bee Groundwater
1-3 Conservation District.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 10, Chapter 678, Acts of the 75th
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 10. ELECTION OF DIRECTORS. (a) On a uniform election
1-8 date, as provided by Section 41.001(a), Election Code, selected by
1-9 the initial directors, [the first Saturday in October] of the
1-10 second year after the year in which the district is authorized to
1-11 be created at a confirmation election, an election shall be held in
1-12 the district for the election of four directors, each of whom shall
1-13 serve a two-year term, and three directors, each of whom shall
1-14 serve a four-year term.
1-15 (b) On the uniform election date selected under Subsection
1-16 (a) of this section [first Saturday in October] of each subsequent
1-17 second year following the election, the appropriate number of
1-18 directors shall be elected to the board.
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a
1-20 vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-21 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
1-22 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-23 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.