Bill Text: TX HB1982 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the board of directors of the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 4)

Status: (Passed) 2017-05-18 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB1982 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB1982-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 1982

AN ACT
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
[nine] directors.
(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:
Sec. 7. [APPOINTMENT OF] DIRECTORS.
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 [appointed] as
follows:
(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
matches the applicable precinct number [the Commissioners Court of
Montgomery County shall appoint two directors];
(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 [the board of directors of
the Montgomery County Soil and Water Conservation District shall
appoint one director;
[(3) the board of directors of the San Jacinto River
Authority shall appoint one director;
[(4) the mayor of the City of Conroe shall appoint one
director;
[(5) the mayors of all of the incorporated
municipalities, other than the City of Conroe, located in whole or
in part in Montgomery County, jointly shall appoint one director;
[(6) the board of trustees of the Woodlands Joint
Powers Agency shall appoint one director;
[(7) the boards of directors of all of the municipal
utility districts located in whole or in part in Montgomery County
that are not members of the Woodlands Joint Powers Agency and the
district boundaries of which are located primarily to the east of
Interstate Highway 45 jointly shall appoint one director; and
[(8) the boards of directors of all of the municipal
utility districts located in whole or in part in Montgomery County
that are not members of the Woodlands Joint Powers Agency and the
district boundaries of which are located primarily to the west of
Interstate Highway 45 jointly shall appoint one director].
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