Bill Text: TX SB407 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 407 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the presiding officers of the boards of directors of river authorities.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-16 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB407 Detail]

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	86R2146 SLB-D

	By: Birdwell	S.B. No. 407



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the presiding officers of the boards of directors of
	river authorities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Title 5, Water Code, is amended by designating
	Chapter 152 as Subtitle A and adding a subtitle heading to read as
	follows:
	SUBTITLE A. RIVER AUTHORITIES
	SECTION 2. Subtitle A, Title 5, Water Code, as added by this
	Act, is amended by adding Chapter 150 to read as follows:
	CHAPTER 150. PROVISIONS GENERALLY APPLICABLE TO RIVER AUTHORITIES
	Sec. 150.0001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
	(1) "Board" means the board of directors of a river
	authority.
	(2) "River authority" means a district created under
	the authority of Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, as a
	regional water management entity to provide water development and
	planning services and other services to a river basin or portion of
	a river basin.
	Sec. 150.0002. PRESIDING OFFICER. The governor shall
	designate a member of the board of a river authority as the
	presiding officer of the board to serve in that capacity at the
	pleasure of the governor.
	SECTION 3. (a) In this section, "river authority" means a
	district created under the authority of Section 59, Article XVI,
	Texas Constitution, as a regional water management entity to
	provide water development and planning services and other services
	to a river basin or portion of a river basin.
	(b) For each river authority for which the governor was not
	required to designate a presiding officer of the board of directors
	for that river authority before the effective date of this Act, the
	governor shall designate a presiding officer of the board of
	directors of the river authority not later than January 31, 2020.
	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.