Bill Text: TX SB987 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the term of office and qualifications for a director of the Colorado County Groundwater Conservation District.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB987 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB987-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the term of office and qualifications for a director of the Colorado County Groundwater Conservation District.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB987 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB987-Comm_Sub.html
By: Hegar | S.B. No. 987 | |
(Kleinschmidt) | ||
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relating to the term of office and qualifications for a director of | ||
the Colorado County Groundwater Conservation District. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 8824.051, Special | ||
District Local Laws Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(c) A director may serve only two full consecutive terms in | ||
the same position. | ||
SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 8824.052, Special | ||
District Local Laws Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (e), the directors of | ||
the district shall be elected as follows: | ||
(1) the directors for positions 1 through 4 must | ||
reside in Colorado County Commissioners Precincts 1 through 4, | ||
respectively, and are elected by the voters of the applicable | ||
county commissioners precinct; and | ||
(2) the directors for positions 5 through 7 must | ||
reside in Colorado County [ |
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district. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act does not | ||
affect the term of a member of the board of directors of the | ||
Colorado County Groundwater Conservation District serving on the | ||
effective date of this Act. A director appointed to fill a vacancy | ||
occurring on or after the effective date of this Act must be | ||
appointed in accordance with Subsection (c), Section 8824.051, and | ||
Subsection (a), Section 8824.052, Special District Local Laws Code, | ||
as amended by 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, 2011. |