86R15540 GRM-D

By: Paul H.B. No. 4761

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the board of directors of the Clear Lake City Water Authority.

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

SECTION 1. Section 9029.052, Special District Local Laws Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 9029.052. ELIGIBILITY. A person may not be appointed or elected a director unless the person:

(1) owns taxable property in the authority; and

(2) resides in the single-member precinct the person represents or seeks to represent [authority].

SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 9029, Special District Local Laws Code, is amended by adding Section 9029.055 to read as follows:

Sec. 9029.055. METHOD OF ELECTING DIRECTORS: SINGLE-MEMBER PRECINCTS. (a) As soon as practicable after the effective date of this section, the board shall:

(1) divide the authority into five single-member precincts for electing directors; and

(2) assign each of the existing board positions to one of the new single-member precincts.

(b) If the authority annexes territory, the annexed territory becomes part of one or more of the single-member precincts as determined by the board.

(c) One director shall be elected from each single-member precinct.

(d) After each federal decennial census or as needed, the board may redraw the single-member precincts to reflect population changes. A director in office on the effective date of a change in the boundaries of a single-member precinct, or a director elected or appointed before the effective date of the change whose term of office begins on or after the effective date of the change, shall serve for the remainder of the director's term in the single-member precinct to which elected or appointed even if the change in boundaries places the director's residence outside the precinct to which the director was elected or appointed.

SECTION 3. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies only to a director elected or appointed to serve on the board of directors of the Clear Lake City Water Authority on or after the effective date of this Act.

(b) The change in law made by this Act does not affect the term of office of a director serving on the board of directors of the Clear Lake City Water Authority on the effective date of this Act.

SECTION 4. (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, one of the required recipients, 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, the lieutenant governor, and the 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 5. 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, 2019.