SRC-AMY S.B. 347 78(R) BILL ANALYSIS Senate Research CenterS.B. 347 By: Barrientos Natural Resources 8/12/2003 Enrolled DIGEST AND PURPOSE Currently, the board of directors of the Barton Springs-Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (district) is composed of five members, who are elected from single-member districts. Members of two of the districts are elected from the City of Austin. Whenever the City of Austin annexes territory within the district's boundaries, the district must redistrict to ensure that only two of its members are elected by City of Austin residents. S.B. 347 revises the district's single-member districts as soon as practicable after the publication of each federal decennial census as the board considers appropriate to reflect population changes. This is in keeping with the redistricting requirements of other political bodies. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Section 7, Chapter 429, Acts of the 70th Legislature, Regular Session, 1987, by adding Subsections (d) through (h), as follows: (d) Provides that the Barton Springs-Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (district) is divided into five numbered, single-member districts for electing directors. Authorizes the board of the district (board) to revise the single-member districts as necessary or appropriate. (e) Requires the board to revise the single-member districts as soon as practicable after the publication of each federal decennial census as the board considers appropriate to reflect population changes. (f) Requires the board, when the board revises the single-member districts under Subsection (e), to place two of the districts entirely within the boundaries of the City of Austin, as they exist at that time. Provides that changes in the boundaries of the City of Austin between revisions of the single-member districts under Subsection (e) do not affect the boundaries of the single-member districts. (g) Authorizes the single-member districts within the boundaries of the City of Austin, notwithstanding Subsection (f) of this section, to include unincorporated areas and other municipalities surrounded wholly or partly by the City of Austin's boundaries if the areas or municipalities are noncontiguous to the territory of any other single-member district. (h) Provides that when the boundaries of the single-member districts are changed, a director in office on the effective date of the change, or elected or appointed before the effective date of the change to a term of office beginning on or after the effective date of the change, is entitled to serve the term or the remainder of the term in the single-member district to which elected or appointed even though the change in boundaries places the person's residence outside the single-member district for which the person was elected or appointed. SECTION 2. Effective date: September 1, 2003.