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78R13764 SGA-F

By:  Ogden                                                        S.B. No. 1931



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the composition, appointment, and reconstitution of the 
board of directors of the Brazos River Authority.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 6, Chapter 13, Special Laws, Acts of the 
41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929, is amended to read as 
follows:
	Sec. 6.  The Board of Directors of the Brazos River Authority 
shall have nine [twenty-one (21)] members.  Members of the Board and 
their successors shall serve for a term of six [(6)] years and until 
their successors are designated and qualified.  On February 1, of 
each odd-numbered year, the terms of three [seven (7)] members of 
the Board expire.  [The persons serving on the Board on the 
effective date of this amendment shall continue to serve for their 
unexpired terms.]  The Governor shall appoint three [seven (7)] 
persons each biennium with the advice and consent of the Senate to 
serve on the Board of Directors of the Brazos River Authority and 
not more than 60 [sixty (60)] days thereafter each of said Directors 
shall take and subscribe to an oath of office, similar in character 
to the oaths administered to County Commissioners and shall execute 
bond in the sum of $5,000 [Five Thousand ($5,000.00) Dollars] each, 
payable to the Authority, the premium on said bonds to be paid by 
the Authority which bonds after being recorded in the official bond 
records of the county in which the Authority maintains its office 
shall be deposited with a depository selected and approved for the 
deposit of the funds of the Authority.  All vacancies occurring in 
the Board of Directors shall be filled by appointment of the 
Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate.  Five [Seven 
(7)] members shall constitute a quorum to transact business.  No 
more than two [(2)] of said Directors shall be appointed who reside 
in the same county at the time of their appointment.
	The Governor shall designate a member of the Board of 
Directors as the presiding officer of the Board to serve in that 
capacity at the pleasure of the Governor.  The Board shall elect one 
[(1)] of their number as [Chairman, one (1)] Vice-Chairman and [,] 
one as [(1)] Secretary and appoint a Treasurer who shall furnish a 
bond in the sum of 75 percent [seventy-five (75%) per cent] of the 
amount of money estimated to be on hand during the year, in no event 
to be more than $100,000 [One Hundred Thousand ($100,000.00) 
Dollars].
	SECTION 2.  As soon as practicable on or after the effective 
date of this Act, the governor shall appoint nine directors as 
provided by Section 6, Chapter 13, Special Laws, Acts of the 41st 
Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929, as amended by this Act. The 
governor shall appoint three of the directors to terms expiring on 
February 1, 2005, three to terms expiring on February 1, 2007, and 
three to terms expiring on February 1, 2009.  The position of a 
member of the Brazos River Authority board of directors serving 
immediately before the effective date of this Act is abolished at 
the time five or more of the newly appointed directors qualify for 
office.  Until the abolition of members' positions occurs under 
this section, the members serving immediately before the effective 
date of this Act have the same powers and duties that the members 
had immediately before that date and the board of directors 
continues to be composed in the way it was composed before that 
date, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.