Bill Text: TX HB1251 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the election of the members of the Board of Port Commissioners of the Port of Port Arthur Navigation District of Jefferson County.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2011-05-27 - Effective immediately [HB1251 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB1251-Comm_Sub.html
 
 
  By: Deshotel (Senate Sponsor - Williams) H.B. No. 1251
         (In the Senate - Received from the House March 31, 2011;
  April 13, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Transportation and Homeland Security; May 9, 2011, reported
  favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 9, 2011, sent
  to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the election of the members of the Board of Port
  Commissioners of the Port of Port Arthur Navigation District of
  Jefferson County.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 9(a) and (c), Chapter 197, Acts of the
  58th Legislature, Regular Session, 1963, are amended to read as
  follows:
         (a)  The District shall hold an election in the District to
  elect the appropriate number of port commissioners as required to
  maintain a full Board of Port Commissioners on the uniform election
  date in [first Saturday of] May in each odd-numbered year [at which
  time there shall be elected five (5) Port Commissioners].
         (c)  Port [Except as provided by Subsection   (d) of this
  section, the] commissioners serve staggered six-year [four-year]
  terms.
         SECTION 2.  (a)  A port commissioner who on the effective
  date of this Act serves on the Board of Port Commissioners of the
  Port of Port Arthur Navigation District of Jefferson County shall
  continue in office until a successor is elected and qualified.
         (b)  Port commissioners of the Port of Port Arthur Navigation
  District of Jefferson County shall serve six-year terms of office
  beginning with terms of port commissioners elected at the election
  held in 2013, in accordance with Sections 9(a) and (c), Chapter 197,
  Acts of the 58th Legislature, Regular Session, 1963, as amended by
  this Act.
         SECTION 3.  (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 4.  Except as provided by Section 2(b) of this Act,
  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.
 
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