Bill Text: TX SB726 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to elections held by the Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB726 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB726-Enrolled.html

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S.B. No. 726

AN ACT
relating to elections held by the Panhandle Groundwater
Conservation District.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 1B(b) and (c), Chapter 19, Acts of the
55th Legislature, Regular Session, 1957, are amended to read as
follows:
(b) A directors' election shall be held on the uniform
election date in May [third Saturday in January] in each
odd-numbered [even-numbered] year to elect the appropriate number
of directors.
(c) Except as provided by this section, a directors'
election is held as provided by [Chapter 51, Water Code, and] the
[Texas] Election Code.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 726 passed the Senate on
April 3, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 726 passed the House on
May 19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, two
present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor