AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT

 

The Lubbock Reese Redevelopment Authority (LRRA) established in Chapter 3501 (Lubbock Reese Redevelopment Authority), Special District and Local Laws Code, provides for a board of directors of seven members. These members are currently appointed to a four-year term and they may be reappointed to one additional four-year term. In the event a board member resigns from the board before completing the board member's term, the individual appointed to fill this unexpired term may only be reappointed for one additional term, regardless of the length served of the unexpired term.

 

This bill will allow the individual appointed to an unexpired term to be appointed to two additional terms. This is because as it stands the board will lose six of the seven members in September 2015. This change in statute will allow LRRA to retain three of those six members.

 

Additionally, current statute provides that the South Plains Association of Governments (SPAG) may appoint one member of the board. Since the board's inception, SPAG has always appointed its executive director. This bill requires that the executive director of SPAG be appointed to the board.

 

As proposed, S.B. 696 amends current law relating to the board of the Lubbock Reese Development Authority.

 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

 

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency.

 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

 

SECTION 1. Amends Section 3501.051(a), Special District Local Laws Code, to provide that the board of directors of the Lubbock Reese Redevelopment Authority (board) (authority) is composed of the executive director of the South Plains Association of Governments, rather than one director as appointed by the South Plains Association of Governments, in addition to certain other directors.

 

SECTION 2. Amends Section 3501.052, Special District Local Laws Code, by amending Subsections (a) and (c) and adding Subsection (d), as follows:

 

(a) Provides that a director serves a term of four years. Deletes existing text requiring a director appointed to fill a vacancy for an unexpired term to serve for the remainder of that term only.

 

(c) Authorizes a director to be appointed as the director's own successor for not more than one term, except as provided under Subsection (d).

 

(d) Requires a director appointed to fill a vacancy for an unexpired term to serve for the remainder of that term and authorizes that director to be appointed as the director's own successor for not more than two terms. 

 

SECTION 3. Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2013.