Bill Text: TX HB2201 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the date for the confirmation election for the Southwestern Travis County Groundwater Conservation District.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-03 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB2201 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2201-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Goodwin | H.B. No. 2201 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2201: | |||
| By: Dominguez | C.S.H.B. No. 2201 | ||
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| 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 [ |
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| 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 [ |
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| 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. | ||
