By: Perry S.B. No. 1088
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to eligibility to serve as a member of the board of
  directors of the West Central Texas Municipal Water District.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 3(a), (b), (c), and (d), Chapter 66,
  Acts of the 54th Legislature, Regular Session, 1955, are amended to
  read as follows:
         (a)  All powers of the District shall be exercised by a Board
  of Directors.  Each city in the District[, each of whom] shall
  appoint a person to the Board of Directors, as provided by this
  section, [be appointed] by majority vote of the governing body of a 
  [the] city [in which he resides].
         (b)  The number of Directors to be appointed by [from] each
  city in the District shall be governed by the population of the
  city, according to the most recent Federal Census, as follows:
               (1)  each [Each] city having a population of ten
  thousand (10,000) or less, shall appoint two (2) Directors; and
               (2)  each [Each] city having a population of more than
  ten thousand (10,000), shall appoint two (2) Directors plus one (1)
  Director for each ten thousand (10,000) population or part thereof
  over ten thousand (10,000), provided however, that no city shall
  appoint more than one-half (1/2) of the members of the Board.
         (c)  In [the appointment of Directors from each city which is
  entitled to appoint more than one (1) Director, not less than one
  (1) Director shall serve to and including May 31, 1956, and not less
  than one (1) shall serve to and including May 31, 1957, the
  Directors to serve for the short term and those to serve for the
  long term shall be specified by the governing body of the city; in
  May of 1956 and in] May of each year the governing body of each
  [such] city shall appoint the necessary Director or Directors for
  the two (2) year term beginning June 1st of that year.  The first
  Director appointed by [from] any city, hereafter  annexed to the
  District, which is entitled to only one (1) Director, may be
  appointed for a term ending on a May 31st not more than two (2) years
  from date of appointment.  The subsequent Director or Directors
  shall be appointed as provided above.
         (d)  Each Director shall serve for the Director's [his] term
  of office as herein provided, and thereafter until a [his]
  successor shall be appointed and qualified.  No person shall be
  appointed a Director unless the person [he] resides in and owns
  taxable property in a county in which the city that [from which he
  is] appointed the person is located.  No member of a governing body
  of a city, and no employee of a city shall be appointed as Director.  
  Such Directors shall subscribe the Constitutional oath of office,
  and each shall give bond for the faithful performance of the
  Director's [his] duties in the amount of Five Thousand Dollars
  ($5,000), the cost of which shall be paid by the District.  A
  majority shall constitute a quorum.  If any Director no longer
  resides in and owns taxable property in a county in which the city
  that appointed the Director is located [moves from the city from
  which he is appointed], the governing body of such city shall
  appoint a Director to succeed that Director [him], for the
  unexpired term.
         SECTION 2.  The West Central Texas Municipal Water District
  retains all rights, powers, privileges, authority, duties, and
  functions that it had before the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  (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 4.  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, 2023.