Bill Text: TX SB2071 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the composition of the port commission of the Port of Corpus Christi Authority of Nueces County, Texas.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-18 - Recommendations filed with the Senate [SB2071 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB2071-Introduced.html

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By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 2071

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the composition of the port commission of the Port of
Corpus Christi Authority of Nueces County, Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1A, Chapter 397, Acts of the 68th
Legislature, Regular Session, 1983, as added by Chapter 498, Acts
of the 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, is amended to read
as follows:
Sec. 1A. COMPOSITION OF PORT COMMISSION. The port
commission is composed of nine [seven] port commissioners members].
SECTION 2. Section 2(a), Chapter 397, Acts of the 68th
Legislature, Regular Session, 1983, is amended to read as follows:
(a) Port commissioners are appointed as follows:
(1) the commissioners court [The Commissioners Court]
of Nueces County shall appoint three port commissioners;
(2) the city council of the City of Corpus Christi
shall appoint three port commissioners; and
(3) the commissioners court of San Patricio County
shall appoint three port commissioners, two of whom serve as
non-voting commissioners in an advisory capacity only [four members
to the port commission, and the City Council of Corpus Christi shall
appoint three members to the port commission].
SECTION 3. Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4, Chapter 1334, Acts of
the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, are repealed.
SECTION 4. Not later than one year after the effective date
of this Act, the commissioners court of San Patricio County shall
appoint two port commissioners to the port commission of the Port of
Corpus Christi Authority of Nueces County, Texas, as provided by
Section 2(a), Chapter 397, Acts of the 68th Legislature, Regular
Session, 1983, as amended by this Act, to serve terms that expire on
dates that preserve the required staggering of terms.
SECTION 5. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
over another Act of the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019,
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
codes.
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 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, 2019.