1-1     By:  Zaffirini                                        S.B. No. 1036
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 1, 2001; March 5, 2001, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
 1-4     April 18, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 5,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 18, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the election dates for directors of the Bee Groundwater
 1-9     Conservation District.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 10, Chapter 678, Acts of the 75th
1-12     Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, is amended to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 10.  ELECTION OF DIRECTORS.  (a)  On a uniform election
1-14     date, as provided by Section 41.001(a), Election Code, selected by
1-15     the initial directors, [the first Saturday in October] of the
1-16     second year after the year in which the district is authorized to
1-17     be created at a confirmation election, an election shall be held in
1-18     the district for the election of four directors, each of whom shall
1-19     serve a two-year term, and three directors, each of whom shall
1-20     serve a four-year term.
1-21           (b)  On the uniform election date selected under Subsection
1-22     (a) of this section [first Saturday in October] of each subsequent
1-23     second year following the election, the appropriate number of
1-24     directors shall be elected to the board.
1-25           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-26     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-27     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-28     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-29     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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