Bill Text: TX HB1537 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the terms and election of the members of the board of directors of the Elm Creek Watershed Authority.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-28 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB1537 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1537-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1537 |
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relating to the terms and election of the members of the board of | ||
directors of the Elm Creek Watershed Authority. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 14, Chapter 273, Acts of the 55th | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 1957, is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 14. (a) The Board of Directors of the Authority is | ||
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(c) The directors of the Authority or of any subordinate | ||
district shall be landowners within the Authority and reside within | ||
Bell, Falls, Milam or McLennan Counties, and shall retain such | ||
status during their tenure in office or vacate such office. | ||
SECTION 2. (a) A director of the Elm Creek Watershed | ||
Authority elected in May 2019 shall serve until the director's | ||
successor has qualified following the directors' election held on | ||
the uniform election date in November 2023. A director elected on | ||
the uniform election date in November 2023 serves a four-year term. | ||
(b) A director of the Elm Creek Watershed Authority elected | ||
in 2018 shall serve until the director's successor has qualified | ||
following the directors' election held on the uniform election date | ||
in November 2021. A director elected to succeed that director | ||
serves a four-year term. | ||
(c) This section expires September 1, 2024. | ||
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. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1537 was passed by the House on April | ||
26, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 137, Nays 2, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1537 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
16, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |