By Chisum H.B. No. 2223
77R2180 MI-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the board of directors of the Collingsworth County
1-3 Underground Water Conservation District.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 12, Chapter 376, Acts of the 69th
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1985, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 12. ANNEXATION. Additional territory may be added to
1-8 the district as provided by Chapter 49 [51], Water Code. If the
1-9 district annexes additional territory, the board of directors may
1-10 add the annexed territory to one or more existing single-member
1-11 districts for purposes of electing directors, may redraw the five
1-12 single-member districts to include the annexed territory, or may
1-13 add a sixth single-member district for the election of an
1-14 additional director. [The board of directors shall determine to
1-15 which precinct the annexed land will be added for purposes of
1-16 election of directors.]
1-17 SECTION 2. Section 13(c), Chapter 376, Acts of the 69th
1-18 Legislature, Regular Session, 1985, is amended to read as follows:
1-19 (c) One director shall be elected from each single-member
1-20 district [county commissioners precinct in Collingsworth County and
1-21 one director shall be elected from the district at large]. To
1-22 represent a single-member district [commissioners precinct], the
1-23 director must own property in that single-member district [be a
1-24 resident of the precinct].
2-1 SECTION 3. Section 13(e), Chapter 376, Acts of the 69th
2-2 Legislature, Regular Session, 1985, is amended to read as follows:
2-3 (e) The board of directors shall draw five numbered
2-4 single-member districts for electing directors and may revise the
2-5 districts as necessary or appropriate. For the conduct of an
2-6 election under this section, the board shall provide for one
2-7 director to be elected from each of the single-member districts. A
2-8 director elected from a single-member district represents the
2-9 residents and property owners of that single-member district.
2-10 Board elections shall be held on a uniform election day in
2-11 even-numbered years and shall be conducted according to Sections
2-12 36.017(b)-(h), Water Code, and the Election Code. [After the
2-13 election of directors at the confirmation election held under
2-14 Section 9 of this Act, regular elections for a portion of the board
2-15 of directors shall be held in each even-numbered year. The
2-16 directors elected from commissioners precincts 1 and 3 and the
2-17 director elected at large at the confirmation election shall serve
2-18 as directors until the first regular meeting of the board after the
2-19 second regular election of directors, and the directors elected
2-20 from commissioners precincts 2 and 4 at the confirmation election
2-21 shall serve until the first regular meeting of the board after the
2-22 first regular election of directors.]
2-23 SECTION 4. (a) A director of the Collingsworth County
2-24 Underground Water Conservation District who is serving on the day
2-25 before the effective date of this Act shall serve until the
2-26 director's term expires.
2-27 (b) At the 2002 directors' election, the open board
3-1 positions shall be filled by the appropriate number of directors,
3-2 who shall be elected from single-member districts.
3-3 (c) At the 2004 directors' election, the remaining board
3-4 positions shall be filled by directors elected from the remaining
3-5 single-member districts.
3-6 (d) At each subsequent directors' election, the appropriate
3-7 number of directors shall be elected from single-member districts.
3-8 SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
3-9 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
3-10 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
3-11 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
3-12 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.