By: Duncan S.B. No. 2520

(In the Senate - Filed April 9, 2009; April 14, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; April 23, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 23, 2009, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to election and qualifications of members of the board of directors of the Santa Rita Underground Water Conservation District.

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

SECTION 1. Section 7, Chapter 653, Acts of the 71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, is amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:

(a) The district is governed by a board of five directors. A director must be 18 years of age or older and must be a resident of the district.

(f) Section 141.001(a)(5), Election Code, and Section 36.059(b), Water Code, do not apply to the district.

SECTION 2. Subsection (b), Section 10, Chapter 653, Acts of the 71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, is amended to read as follows:

(b) On the uniform election date [first Saturday] in May of each odd-numbered [the second] year [after the year in which the district is authorized to be created at a confirmation election], an election shall be held in the district for the election of the appropriate number of directors. [Directors elected from district precincts 2 and 4 shall each serve two-year terms and directors elected from district precincts 1 and 3 and the district at large shall each serve four-year terms. Thereafter, on the same date in each subsequent second year, the appropriate number of directors shall be elected to the board.]

SECTION 3. Subsection (c), Section 10, Chapter 653, Acts of the 71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, is repealed.

SECTION 4. (a) The legal notice of the intention to introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies, officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313, Government Code.

(b) The governor, one of the required recipients, has submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

(c) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of representatives within the required time.

(d) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled and accomplished.

SECTION 5. 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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