S.B. No. 669

AN ACT

relating to the date for the confirmation election for the Southwestern Travis County Groundwater Conservation District.

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

SECTION 1. Sections 8871.024(a) and (e), Special District Local Laws Code, are amended to read as follows:

(a) The temporary directors shall order an election in the district, to be held not later than the uniform election date in November 2019 [May 2018], to confirm the creation of the district and to elect the initial directors.

(e) If the district's creation is not confirmed at an election held under Subsection (a), the candidate who receives a majority of the votes cast at that election for each of the seven positions on the board becomes a temporary director of the district. The temporary directors elected under this subsection shall order a subsequent election to be held to confirm the creation of the district and to elect the initial directors not earlier than the uniform election date in November [May] 2020.

SECTION 2. 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.

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President of the Senate Speaker of the House

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 669 passed the Senate on April 11, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

______________________________ Secretary of the Senate

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 669 passed the House on May 3, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, two present not voting.

______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House

Approved:

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Date

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Governor