By: Hancock  S.B. No. 1837
         (In the Senate - Filed March 18, 2013; March 20, 2013, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
  Relations; April 11, 2013, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 11, 2013, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the appointment of directors for the Viridian Municipal
  Management District.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 3861.052, Special District Local Laws
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 3861.052.  APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTORS [ELECTION DATE].  
  The mayor and members of the governing body of the city shall
  appoint directors.  A person is appointed if the majority of those
  members and the mayor vote to appoint that person [The board shall
  hold elections for directors on the uniform election date in May in
  even-numbered years].
         SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act do not affect
  the entitlement of a director serving on the board of directors of
  the Viridian Municipal Management District immediately before the
  effective date of this Act to continue to carry out the board's
  functions for the remainder of the director's term.  As the
  directors' terms expire, the mayor and members of the governing
  body of the city shall replace the elected directors beginning with
  the directors whose terms expire May 31, 2014.
         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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