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.