By: Duncan S.B. No. 696

(In the Senate - Filed February 21, 2013; February 25, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations; March 18, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; March 18, 2013, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the board of the Lubbock Reese Redevelopment Authority.

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

SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 3501.051, Special District Local Laws Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a) The board is composed of:

(1) five directors appointed by the governing body of the City of Lubbock from a list of persons recommended by the board under this section;

(2) one director appointed by the commissioners court of Lubbock County from a list of persons recommended by the board under this section; and

(3) the executive director of [one director appointed by] the South Plains Association of Governments.

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

(a) A director serves a term of four years. [A director appointed to fill a vacancy for an unexpired term shall serve for the remainder of that term only.]

(c) Except as provided by Subsection (d), a [A] director may be appointed as the director's own successor for not more than one term.

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

SECTION 3. 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, 2013.

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