Bill Text: TX HB5025 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the boundaries of the single-member districts for and vacancies on the board of directors of the Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB5025 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB5025-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Zwiener, Isaac (Senate Sponsor - Campbell) H.B. No. 5025
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 2023;
May 16, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Water,
Agriculture & Rural Affairs; May 19, 2023, reported favorably by
the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 19, 2023, sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the boundaries of the single-member districts for and
vacancies on the board of directors of the Hays Trinity Groundwater
Conservation District.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 8843.056(c), Special District Local Laws
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(c) When the boundaries of the single-member districts are
changed [At the first election after the single-member districts
are revised], a [new] director in office on the effective date of
the change, or elected or appointed before the effective date of the
change to a term of office beginning on or after the effective date
of the change, is entitled to serve the term or the remainder of the
term in the single-member district to which the director was
elected or appointed even though the change in boundaries places
the director's residence outside the single-member district for
which the director was elected or appointed [shall be elected from
each district. The directors shall draw lots to determine which two
directors serve one-year terms and which three directors serve
two-year terms].
SECTION 2. Section 8843.055, Special District Local Laws
Code, is repealed.
SECTION 3. The selection of terms of the board of directors
that occurred before the effective date of this Act and in
accordance with Section 8843.056(c), Special District Local Laws
Code, is validated and confirmed.
SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a change in the boundaries of the single-member districts from
which the members of the board of directors of the Hays Trinity
Groundwater Conservation District are elected that is made on or
after the effective date of this Act. A change in the boundaries of
the single-member districts that is made before the effective date
of this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately before
the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect
for that purpose.
SECTION 5. (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 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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