79R20216 DRH-D
Suspending limitations on conference committee
jurisdiction, H.B. No. 2309 (Denny/M. Jackson)
By: Denny H.R. No. 2216
R E S O L U T I O N
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of
Texas, 79th Legislature, Regular Session, 2005, That House Rule 13,
Section 9(a), be suspended in part as provided by House Rule 13,
Section 9(f), to enable the conference committee appointed to
resolve the differences on House Bill 2309 (certain election
processes and procedures) to consider and take action on the
following matter:
House Rule 13, Section 9(a)(4), is suspended to permit the
committee to add language to the statute validating and recreating
the Lake Cities Municipal Utility Authority (Section 6(b), Chapter
1137, Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999) to allow
the governing body of the authority to be elected at large by place
and to repeal a prior obsolete statute governing the operations of
the authority to read as follows:
SECTION 1.26. (a) Section 6(b), Chapter 1137, Acts of the
76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999, is amended to read as
follows:
(b) Each director is [Directors are] elected at large to one
of five numbered places by the qualified voters residing within the
boundaries of LCMUA.
(b) The directors serving on the effective date of this
section shall draw lots to determine in which place each director
serves. The two directors whose terms expire in 2006 shall draw
lots for places 1 and 2. The three directors whose terms expire in
2008 shall draw lots for places 3, 4, and 5. At the directors
election in 2006 a candidate may file for place 1 or 2. At the
directors election in 2008, a candidate may file for place 3, 4, or
5.
(c) Chapter 312, Acts of the 58th Legislature, Regular
Session, 1963, is repealed.
Explanation: This change is necessary to allow the Lake
Cities Municipal Utility Authority to elect its board of directors
at large by place and to repeal an obsolete statute creating the
authority.