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79R7545 MXM-F
By: Hamric H.B. No. 2710
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the election of initial emergency services district
boards in districts located in more than one county.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 775.035(g), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(g) The initial emergency services commissioners' terms of
office begin 30 days after canvassing of [on January 1 of the year
following] the election results. The two commissioners who
received the fewest votes serve a term that expires on December 31
of the year in which the election was held [one-year terms]. The
other emergency services commissioners serve [two-year] terms that
expire on December 31 of the year following the election.
SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 775, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 775.044 to read as follows:
Sec. 775.044. VACANCY ON BOARD OF DISTRICT LOCATED IN MORE
THAN ONE COUNTY. (a) Not later than the 90th day after a board
vacancy for a district located in more than one county occurs, the
remaining board members shall appoint a person to fill the
unexpired term.
(b) If the board has not filled the vacancy before the 91st
day after the date of the vacancy, the commissioners court of the
county where the previous board member resided shall appoint a
person to fill the vacancy.
(c) A person appointed under this section must be eligible
to serve under Section 775.035.
SECTION 3. Section 775.035(g), Health and Safety Code, as
amended by this Act, applies only to an initial commissioner
elected on or after the effective date of this Act. An initial
commissioner elected before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect when the initial commissioner was
elected, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.