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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.