Bill Text: TX HB1982 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the board of directors of the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-18 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB1982 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1982-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1982 |
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relating to the board of directors of the Lone Star Groundwater | ||
Conservation District. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 6(a) and (c), Chapter 1321, Acts of the | ||
77th Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, are amended to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(a) The district is governed by a board of seven elected | ||
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(c) Permanent directors serve staggered four-year terms. A | ||
director may not serve more than three full terms. | ||
SECTION 2. The heading to Section 7, Chapter 1321, Acts of | ||
the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, is amended to read as | ||
follows: | ||
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SECTION 3. Section 7(a), Chapter 1321, Acts of the 77th | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The members of the board are elected [ |
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(1) one director is elected from each of the four | ||
county commissioners precincts by the voters of the applicable | ||
precinct to be designated as the director whose place number | ||
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(2) one director is elected by the voters of the | ||
district at large to be designated as the director for place number | ||
five; | ||
(3) one director is elected from the City of Conroe by | ||
the voters of that municipality; and | ||
(4) one director is elected from The Woodlands | ||
Township by the voters of that township [ |
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SECTION 4. | ||
Chapter 1321, Acts of the 77th Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 2001, is amended by adding Section 7A to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 7A. TEMPORARY PROVISION. (a) A director of the board | ||
of the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District who is serving | ||
on August 31, 2017, shall serve until the director's successor has | ||
qualified following the directors' election held on the uniform | ||
election date in November 2018. | ||
(b) After the November 2018 election, the precinct 1 | ||
director, the at-large director, and the director elected by the | ||
City of Conroe shall serve a term that expires December 1 of the | ||
second year after the date of the election and the directors of | ||
precincts 2, 3, and 4 and the director elected by The Woodlands | ||
Township shall serve a term that expires December 1 of the fourth | ||
year after the date of that election. The initial two-year terms of | ||
the precinct 1 director, the at-large director, and the director | ||
elected by the City of Conroe do not count toward the term | ||
limitation provided by Section 6(c) of this Act. | ||
(c) This section expires September 1, 2024. | ||
SECTION 5. Sections 7(b), (c), and (d), Chapter 1321, Acts | ||
of the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, are repealed. | ||
SECTION 6. (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 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1982 was passed by the House on April | ||
20, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 1982 on May 5, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 | ||
present, not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1982 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 4, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |