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By:  Averitt                                                      S.B. No. 806

Substitute the following for S.B. No. 806:                                    

By:  Hardcastle                                               C.S.S.B. No. 806



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to appointed members of the State Soil and Water 
Conservation Board.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 201.011, Agriculture Code, is amended to 
read as follows:
	Sec. 201.011.  COMPOSITION.  The State Soil and Water 
Conservation Board is a state agency composed of five [seven] 
members, with [as follows:
		[(1)]  one member elected from each of the state 
districts in accordance with this subchapter[; and
		[(2)  two members appointed by the governor, each of 
whom is:
			[(A)  actively engaged in the business of farming, 
animal husbandry, or other business related to agriculture and who 
wholly or partly owns or leases land used in connection with that 
business; and
			[(B)  not a member of the board of directors of a 
conservation district].
	SECTION 2.  Section 201.015(b), Agriculture Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	(b)  The term of office of an elected member of the state 
board begins on the day after the day on which the member was 
elected.  [The term of one member appointed by the governor expires 
February 1 of each odd-numbered year, and the term of the other 
member appointed by the governor expires February 1 of each 
even-numbered year.]
	SECTION 3.  (a)  The change in law made by Section 201.011, 
Agriculture Code, as amended by this Act, regarding the composition 
of the State Soil and Water Conservation Board, does not affect the 
entitlement of a member serving on the board immediately before the 
effective date of this Act to continue to serve and function as a 
member of the board for the remainder of the member's term, as 
provided by Subsection (b).
	(b)  The term of a member appointed by the governor and 
serving on the board on the effective date of this Act expires 
September 1, 2007.
	(c)  Members appointed to fill vacancies on the board 
occurring on or after the effective date of this Act must be 
appointed in accordance with Section 201.011, Agriculture Code, as 
amended by this Act.
	SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.