80R14234 AJA-F
 
  By: Garcia H.B. No. 4128
 
 
 
   
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the election of directors of the San Patricio County
Groundwater Conservation District and to the validation of certain
acts of the district.
       BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
       SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 8817, Special District
Local Laws Code, is amended by adding Section 8817.053 to read as
follows:
       Sec. 8817.053.  METHOD OF ELECTING DIRECTORS:  JUSTICE OF
THE PEACE PRECINCTS.  (a)  The directors of the district shall be
elected according to the precinct method as provided by this
section.
       (b)  One director shall be elected by the voters of the
entire district, and one director shall be elected from each
justice of the peace precinct by the voters of that precinct.
       (c)  Except as provided by Subsection (e), to be eligible to
be a candidate for or to serve as director at large, a person must be
a registered voter in the district.  To be a candidate for or to
serve as director from a justice of the peace precinct, a person
must be a registered voter of that precinct.
       (d)  A person shall indicate on the application for a place
on the ballot:
             (1)  the precinct that the person seeks to represent;
or
             (2)  that the person seeks to represent the district at
large.
       (e)  When the boundaries of the justice of the peace
precincts are redrawn after each federal decennial census to
reflect population changes, a director in office on the effective
date of the change, or a director elected or appointed before the
effective date of the change whose term of office begins on or after
the effective date of the change, shall serve in the precinct to
which elected or appointed even though the change in boundaries
places the person's residence outside the precinct for which the
person was elected or appointed.
       SECTION 2.  (a) The following actions of the San Patricio
County Groundwater Conservation District are validated and
confirmed in all respects as if the actions had been done as
authorized by law:
             (1)  all acts and proceedings of the district taken
before the effective date of this Act; and
             (2)  the election or appointment of directors or other
officers of the district who took office before the effective date
of this Act.
       (b)  A governmental act or proceeding of the San Patricio
County Groundwater Conservation District occurring after an act or
proceeding validated by this Act may not be held invalid on the
ground that the prior act or proceeding, in the absence of this Act,
was invalid.
       (c)  This section does not apply to any matter that on the
effective date of this Act:
             (1)  is involved in litigation if the litigation
ultimately results in the matter being held invalid by a final
judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction; or
             (2)  has been held invalid by a final judgment of a
court of competent jurisdiction.
       SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2007.