Bill Text: TX SB669 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the date for the confirmation election for the Southwestern Travis County Groundwater Conservation District.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-05-20 - Effective immediately [SB669 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB669-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Buckingham S.B. No. 669
(Goodwin)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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 [May 2018], to confirm the creation of the district
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 [May] 2020.
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.