Amend  CSSB 427 (House Committee Printing) as follows:                       
	(1)  Between the enacting clause and SECTION 1 of the bill 
(page 1, between lines 5 and 6), insert:

ARTICLE 1. AMENDMENT OF ELECTION CODE
	(2)  Redesignate SECTION 1 of the bill as SECTION 1.01.                        
	(3)  Strike SECTION 2 of the bill (page 1, line 19), and 
substitute the following:

ARTICLE 2. AMENDMENT OF RED BLUFF WATER POWER CONTROL

DISTRICT LOCAL LAW
	SECTION 2.01.  DEFINITIONS. In this article, "Red Bluff 
District" means the Red Bluff Water Power Control District.
	SECTION 2.02.  NATURE AND COMPOSITION OF DISTRICT. (a) The 
Red Bluff Water Power Control District is a water power control 
district in Loving, Pecos, Reeves, and Ward Counties:
		(1)  created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas 
Constitution; and         
		(2)  governed by:                                                             
			(A)  Chapter 76, General Laws, Acts of the 43rd 
Legislature, Regular Session, 1933 (Article 7807d, Vernon's Texas 
Civil Statutes);
			(B)  Chapter 19, General Laws, Acts of the 43rd 
Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1933 (Article 7807dd, Vernon's 
Texas Civil Statutes); and
			(C)  other provisions of general law.                                        
	(b)  The Red Bluff District is composed of the seven 
following member districts regardless of whether a district is a 
water improvement district operating under Chapter 55, Water Code, 
or an irrigation district operating under Chapter 58, Water Code:
		(1)  Loving County Water Improvement District No. 1;                          
		(2)  Pecos County Water Improvement District No. 2;                           
		(3)  Pecos County Water Improvement District No. 3;                           
		(4)  Reeves County Water Improvement District No. 2;                          
		(5)  Ward County Irrigation District No. 1;                                   
		(6)  Ward County Irrigation District No. 3; and                               
		(7)  Ward County Water Improvement District No. 2.                            
	SECTION 2.03.  RED BLUFF DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS.  (a) 
The Red Bluff District is governed by a board of seven directors.
	(b)  The board of directors of each member district shall 
appoint one director to serve on the board of directors of the Red 
Bluff District.  Each director represents the member district from 
which the director was appointed and serves at the pleasure of the 
directors of that member district.
	(c)  A person who is an elected director of a member district 
may be appointed to serve as a director of the Red Bluff District.
	(d)  If a vacancy occurs on the board of directors of the Red 
Bluff District, the member district that appointed the director to 
the vacated position shall appoint a person to fill the vacancy.
	SECTION 2.04.  TERRITORY OF RED BLUFF DISTRICT; COUNTY 
NOTIFICATION.  (a) The territory of the Red Bluff District is only 
that territory included in the combined territory of the member 
districts listed under Section 2.02(b) of this article.
	(b)  The Red Bluff District shall notify the registrars of 
the counties named in Section 2.02(a) of this article of the change 
in district boundaries not later than the 30th day after the 
effective date of this article.
	SECTION 2.05.  EFFECTIVE DATE OF ARTICLE. This article takes 
effect on the later of the effective date of this Act or the date on 
which this article is precleared under Section 5, Voting Rights Act 
of 1965 (42 U.S.C. Section 1973c).

ARTICLE 3. EFFECTIVE DATE
	SECTION 3.01.  Except as otherwise provided by this Act, 
this Act takes effect September 1, 2005.