BILL ANALYSIS

S.B. 1088

By: Perry

Natural Resources

Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Currently, only a person who resides within a member city of the West Central Texas Municipal Water District is eligible to be appointed as a district director. This excludes many prospective directors who receive service from the district but reside outside of a member city's limits. S.B. 1088, which is supported by the district's member cities of Abilene, Albany, Anson, and Breckenridge, seeks to address this issue by expanding who can be a district director.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

S.B. 1088 amends Chapter 66, Acts of the 54th Legislature, Regular Session, 1955, to revise the qualification for appointment as a director of the West Central Texas Municipal Water District by expanding the jurisdiction in which such a person must reside and own taxable property from the city that appoints the person to a county in which that city is located. The bill establishes that the district retains all rights, powers, privileges, authority, duties, and functions that it had before the bill's effective date.

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2023.