BILL ANALYSIS

H.B. 1525

By: Alvarado

County Affairs

Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Currently, the 15-member Greater East End Management District board of directors is statutorily required to include no fewer than nine members who are residents of the district, and each of the remaining members is required to have more than a 10 percent interest in a business entity located in the district. Concerns have been raised that there are not enough director positions for business representatives.  H.B. 1525 addresses this issue by changing the membership requirements for the board of directors of the district.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

H.B. 1525 amends the Special District Local Laws Code to remove the minimum age requirement for a person to be qualified to serve on the Greater East End Management District board of directors, to lower from at least 60 percent to at least one-third the proportion of the directors who are required to be residents of the district, and to remove provisions requiring that each director who does not reside in the district have a district business interest.  The bill repeals a provision defining "district business interest."  The bill specifies that its provisions do not affect the right of a person appointed to the board before the bill's effective date to continue to serve on the board until the person's term expires.

H.B. 1525 repeals Section 3807.052(c), Special District Local Laws Code.

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2011.