Bill Text: TX HB1945 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the election of directors of the Real-Edwards Conservation and Reclamation District.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-13 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB1945 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1945-Introduced.html
82R5869 SLB-F | ||
By: Hilderbran | H.B. No. 1945 |
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relating to the election of directors of the Real-Edwards | ||
Conservation and Reclamation District. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 11, Chapter 341, Acts of the 56th | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 1959, is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 11. (a) The government and control of the District | ||
shall be vested in a Board of Directors consisting of nine [ |
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members. Directors serve staggered four-year terms expiring on | ||
January 1 of odd-numbered years. | ||
(b) The District shall hold an election on the uniform | ||
election date in November of each even-numbered year to elect the | ||
appropriate number of Directors. [ |
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(b-1) An applicant to be a candidate for election as a | ||
Director must indicate on the application either: | ||
(1) the position number of the District that the | ||
person seeks to represent; or | ||
(2) that the person seeks to run at large. | ||
(b-2) To be eligible to be a candidate for Director position | ||
number 1, 3, 5, or 7, a person must be a registered voter in Edwards | ||
County. | ||
(b-3) To be eligible to be a candidate for Director position | ||
number 2, 4, 6, or 8, a person must be a registered voter in Real | ||
County. | ||
(b-4) To be eligible to be a candidate for the at-large | ||
position, a person must be a registered voter in the District. | ||
(c) Any vacancy occurring in the membership of the Board of | ||
Directors shall be filled by the remaining members of the Board for | ||
the unexpired term of such office. | ||
(d) Before entering upon the duties of [ |
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member of the Board of Directors shall take the Constitutional oath | ||
of office. | ||
SECTION 2. (a) A member of the board of directors of the | ||
Real-Edwards Conservation and Reclamation District serving on the | ||
effective date of this Act shall continue in office until the | ||
member's successor qualifies for office. | ||
(b) At the election held November 6, 2012, four directors | ||
shall be elected from positions 1, 2, 3, and 4. | ||
(c) At the election held November 4, 2014, four directors | ||
shall be elected from position numbers 5, 6, 7, and 8 and one | ||
director elected at large. | ||
SECTION 3. 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. |