82R3773 RWG-D
 
  By: Howard of Fort Bend H.B. No. 894
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the composition of the board of directors of the Gulf
  Coast Water Authority.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 5 and 5(a), Chapter 712, Acts of the
  59th Legislature, Regular Session, 1965, are amended to read as
  follows:
         Sec. 5.  The management and control of the District is hereby
  vested in a Board of eight [seven (7)] directors.  The directors
  appointed by the Commissioners Court of Galveston County shall
  represent the geographic and ethnic diversity of the county.  
  Vacancies on the Board of Directors, whether by death, resignation
  or termination of the term of office, shall be filled by appointment
  by the commissioners court that appointed the director 
  [Commissioners Court of Galveston County].  All terms of office
  shall be for a period of two (2) years.  Terms shall be staggered [so
  that the terms of three (3) directors expire one year and the terms
  of four (4) directors expire the next year].  Three (3) of the
  members appointed by the Commissioners Court of Galveston County
  shall be registered professional engineers under the laws of Texas.
         Sec. 5(a).  One (1) director of the District shall be
  appointed by the Commissioners Court of Galveston County upon the
  recommendation of the City Council of the City of Galveston.  Six of
  the remaining [The remaining six (6)] directors shall be appointed
  by the Commissioners Court of Galveston County with two directors
  appointed at-large and the remaining four of those directors
  appointed on the written recommendation of advisory committees
  appointed by the Board of Directors of the Gulf Coast Water
  Authority.  Two of those directors shall be recommended by the
  Mainland Municipal Advisory Committee and two of those directors
  shall be recommended by the Industrial Advisory Committee.  The
  Commissioners Court of Galveston County is entitled to accept or
  reject the recommendations made to the court by the advisory
  committees.  If a recommendation made by an advisory committee is
  rejected, the advisory committee shall submit additional
  recommendations to the court.
         The Industrial Advisory Committee is composed of one
  representative of each industrial customer of the Gulf Coast Water
  Authority.  The Mainland Municipal Advisory Committee is composed
  of one representative of each municipal or water district customer
  of the Gulf Coast Water Authority that uses not less than 2 million
  gallons of water a day.  The names of the representatives of each of
  the committees shall be submitted to the Board of Directors of the
  Gulf Coast Water Authority by the respective industrial and
  municipal or water district customers.  The directors of the Gulf
  Coast Water Authority shall submit the names of the advisory
  committee members to the Commissioners Court of Galveston County,
  which shall record the names in the minutes of the court.
         One director shall be appointed by the Commissioners Court of
  Fort Bend County to represent customers of the District in that
  county.  A person appointed as a director by the Commissioners Court
  of Fort Bend County must be a resident of that county.
         SECTION 2.  (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 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,
  lieutenant governor, and 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 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.