By: Gonzalez Toureilles (Senate Sponsor - Hegar) H.B. No. 753

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 1, 2009; April 7, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; April 20, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 20, 2009, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the date for electing directors of the Goliad County Groundwater Conservation District.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 12, Chapter 1359 (H.B. 3651), Acts of the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 12. ELECTION OF REGULAR DIRECTORS. Beginning in the second year following the confirmation election under Section 8 of this Act, an election shall be held on the first uniform election date in November [May] every two years to elect the appropriate number of directors to the board. At the first election, directors for Places 2, 4, and 6 shall be elected. At the next election, directors for Places 1, 3, 5, and 7 shall be elected.

SECTION 2. (a) All governmental and proprietary actions of the Goliad County Groundwater Conservation District taken before the effective date of this Act are validated, ratified, and confirmed in all respects as if the actions had been taken as authorized by law.

(b) 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 court judgment; or

(2) has been held invalid by a final court judgment.

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, 2009.

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