78R3350 RCJ-D
By: Cook of Colorado H.B. No. 535
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a name change for and a change in the terms of the board
of directors of the Colorado Valley Groundwater Conservation
District.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1(a), Chapter 302, Acts of the 77th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, is amended to read as follows:
(a) A groundwater conservation district, to be known as the
Fayette County [Colorado Valley] Groundwater Conservation
District, is created in Fayette County, subject to approval at a
confirmation and initial directors' election under Section 10 of
this Act. The district is a governmental agency and a body politic
and corporate.
SECTION 2. Section 2, Chapter 302, Acts of the 77th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 2. DEFINITION. In this Act, "district" means the
Fayette County [Colorado Valley] Groundwater Conservation
District.
SECTION 3. Section 11, Chapter 302, Acts of the 77th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 11. ELECTION OF PERMANENT DIRECTORS. (a) On the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in November 2004 [Saturday in May of
the first even-numbered year after the year in which the district is
authorized to be created at a confirmation election], an election
shall be held in the district for the election of directors from
Precincts 1 and 3, to serve four-year [two-year] terms beginning
January 1, 2005 [, and of directors from Precincts 2 and 4 and from
the district at large, to serve four-year terms].
(a-1) On the first Tuesday after the first Monday in
November 2006, an election shall be held in the district for the
election of directors from Precincts 2 and 4 and from the district
at large to serve four-year terms beginning January 1, 2007.
(b) On the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November
[Saturday in May] of each subsequent second year following the
election held in 2006, the appropriate number of directors shall be
elected for terms beginning January 1 of the following year.
SECTION 4. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.
(b) The directors from Precincts 1 and 3 elected in May 2002
shall continue in office until successor directors elected in
November 2004, as provided by the change in law made by this Act to
Section 11, Chapter 302, Acts of the 77th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2001, qualify for office.
(c) The directors from Precincts 2 and 4 and from the
district at large elected in May 2002 shall continue in office until
successor directors elected in November 2006, as provided by the
change in law made by this Act to Section 11, Chapter 302, Acts of
the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, qualify for office.