By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 2071

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the composition of the port commission of the Port of Corpus Christi Authority of Nueces County, Texas.

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

SECTION 1. Section 1A, Chapter 397, Acts of the 68th Legislature, Regular Session, 1983, as added by Chapter 498, Acts of the 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 1A. COMPOSITION OF PORT COMMISSION. The port commission is composed of nine [seven] port commissioners members].

SECTION 2. Section 2(a), Chapter 397, Acts of the 68th Legislature, Regular Session, 1983, is amended to read as follows:

(a) Port commissioners are appointed as follows:

(1) the commissioners court [The Commissioners Court] of Nueces County shall appoint three port commissioners;

(2) the city council of the City of Corpus Christi shall appoint three port commissioners; and

(3) the commissioners court of San Patricio County shall appoint three port commissioners, two of whom serve as non-voting commissioners in an advisory capacity only [four members to the port commission, and the City Council of Corpus Christi shall appoint three members to the port commission].

SECTION 3. Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4, Chapter 1334, Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, are repealed.

SECTION 4. Not later than one year after the effective date of this Act, the commissioners court of San Patricio County shall appoint two port commissioners to the port commission of the Port of Corpus Christi Authority of Nueces County, Texas, as provided by Section 2(a), Chapter 397, Acts of the 68th Legislature, Regular Session, 1983, as amended by this Act, to serve terms that expire on dates that preserve the required staggering of terms.

SECTION 5. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over another Act of the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019, relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted codes.

SECTION 6. (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 7. 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.