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78R3089 QS-F
By: Wentworth S.B. No. 347
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to single-member districts for the board of the Barton
Springs-Edwards Aquifer Conservation District.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 7, Chapter 429, Acts of the 70th
Legislature, Regular Session, 1987, is amended by adding
Subsections (d), (e), (f), and (g) to read as follows:
(d) The district is divided into five numbered,
single-member districts for electing directors. The board may
revise the single-member districts as necessary or appropriate.
(e) The board shall 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) When the board revises the single-member districts
under Subsection (e), the board shall place two of the districts
entirely within the boundaries of the City of Austin, as they exist
at that time. 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) 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. This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.