Bill Text: TX SB407 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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]
Download: Texas-2019-SB407-Comm_Sub.html
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]
Download: Texas-2019-SB407-Comm_Sub.html
By: Birdwell | S.B. No. 407 | |
(In the Senate - Filed January 22, 2019; February 14, 2019, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Water & Rural Affairs; | ||
March 27, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; March 27, 2019, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 407 | By: Johnson |
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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 the San Antonio River | ||
Authority and a district: | ||
(A) created by the legislature 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) that contains one or more counties within its | ||
boundaries; and | ||
(C) governed by a board of directors appointed or | ||
designated wholly or partly by the governor. | ||
Sec. 150.0002. PRESIDING OFFICER. (a) This section does | ||
not apply to a district with an entirely elected board or the Upper | ||
Neches River Municipal Water Authority. | ||
(b) 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" has the | ||
meaning assigned by Section 150.0001, Water Code, as added by this | ||
Act. | ||
(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 and | ||
for which the governor is required to designate a presiding officer | ||
under Section 150.0002, Water Code, as added by 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. | ||
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