Bill Text: TX SB2554 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the board of directors of the Clear Lake City Water Authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-23 - Recommendations filed with the Senate [SB2554 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB2554-Introduced.html

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86R15540 GRM-D
By: Taylor S.B. No. 2554

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the board of directors of the Clear Lake City Water
Authority.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 9029.052, Special District Local Laws
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 9029.052. ELIGIBILITY. A person may not be appointed
or elected a director unless the person:
(1) owns taxable property in the authority; and
(2) resides in the single-member precinct the person
represents or seeks to represent [authority].
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 9029, Special District
Local Laws Code, is amended by adding Section 9029.055 to read as
follows:
Sec. 9029.055. METHOD OF ELECTING DIRECTORS: SINGLE-MEMBER
PRECINCTS. (a) As soon as practicable after the effective date of
this section, the board shall:
(1) divide the authority into five single-member
precincts for electing directors; and
(2) assign each of the existing board positions to one
of the new single-member precincts.
(b) If the authority annexes territory, the annexed
territory becomes part of one or more of the single-member
precincts as determined by the board.
(c) One director shall be elected from each single-member
precinct.
(d) After each federal decennial census or as needed, the
board may redraw the single-member precincts to reflect population
changes. A director in office on the effective date of a change in
the boundaries of a single-member precinct, or a director elected
or appointed before the effective date of the change whose term of
office begins on or after the effective date of the change, shall
serve for the remainder of the director's term in the single-member
precinct to which elected or appointed even if the change in
boundaries places the director's residence outside the precinct to
which the director was elected or appointed.
SECTION 3. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
only to a director elected or appointed to serve on the board of
directors of the Clear Lake City Water Authority on or after the
effective date of this Act.
(b) The change in law made by this Act does not affect the
term of office of a director serving on the board of directors of
the Clear Lake City Water Authority on the effective date of this
Act.
SECTION 4. (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 5. 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.