By: Harless (Senate Sponsor - Patrick) H.J.R. No. 85

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 2009; May 13, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations; May 26, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 26, 2009, sent to printer.)

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION

proposing a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to provide for members of a governing board of an emergency services district to serve terms not to exceed four years.

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

SECTION 1. Section 30(c), Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is amended to read as follows:

(c) The Legislature may provide that members of the governing board of a district or authority created by authority of Article III, Section 48-e, Article III, Section 52(b)(1) or (2), or Article XVI, Section 59, of this Constitution serve terms not to exceed four years.

SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 3, 2009. The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the proposition: "The constitutional amendment to provide that elected members of the governing boards of emergency services districts may serve terms not to exceed four years."

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