By Zaffirini                                          S.B. No. 1036
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                                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.