Bill Text: TX HB4187 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to renaming the Corn Hill Regional Water Authority as the Lone Star Regional Water Authority; altering the governing body's membership.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB4187 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB4187-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 4187

AN ACT
relating to renaming the Corn Hill Regional Water Authority as the
Lone Star Regional Water Authority; altering the governing body's
membership.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Chapter 8364, Special District
Local Laws Code, is amended to read as follows:
CHAPTER 8364. LONE STAR [CORN HILL] REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY
SECTION 2. Section 8364.001(1), Special District Local Laws
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(1) "Authority" means the Lone Star [Corn Hill]
Regional Water Authority.
SECTION 3. Section 8364.051, Special District Local Laws
Code, is amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection
(e) to read as follows:
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (e), each [Each] member
entity shall appoint two directors.
(e) If at any time the number of member entities is more than
five, the board may adopt a resolution providing that each member
entity shall appoint one director. A resolution adopted under this
subsection must be approved by an affirmative vote of not less than
75 percent of the directors then serving, with at least one director
from each member entity present and voting in favor of the
resolution. If the board passes a resolution under this subsection,
the terms of the directors then serving shall expire on the first
day of September following the date the resolution is adopted, and
not later than the first day of October following the date the
resolution is adopted, each member entity shall appoint one
director.
SECTION 4. (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 5. 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, 2015.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 4187 was passed by the House on May
15, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 4187 was passed by the Senate on May
27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor