Bill Text: TX SB407 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 407 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the presiding officers of the boards of directors of river authorities.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-16 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB407 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB407-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Birdwell	S.B. No. 407

	(Nevárez)


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the presiding officers of the boards of directors of
	river authorities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Title 5, Water Code, is amended by designating
	Chapter 152 as Subtitle A and adding a subtitle heading to read as
	follows:
	SUBTITLE A. RIVER AUTHORITIES
	SECTION 2. Subtitle A, Title 5, Water Code, as added by this
	Act, is amended by adding Chapter 150 to read as follows:
	CHAPTER 150. PROVISIONS GENERALLY APPLICABLE TO RIVER AUTHORITIES
	Sec. 150.0001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
	(1) "Board" means the board of directors of a river
	authority.
	(2) "River authority" means the San Antonio River
	Authority and a district:
	(A) created by the legislature under the
	authority of Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, as a
	regional water management entity to provide water development and
	planning services and other services to a river basin or portion of
	a river basin;
	(B) that contains one or more counties within its
	boundaries; and
	(C) governed by a board of directors appointed or
	designated wholly or partly by the governor.
	Sec. 150.0002. PRESIDING OFFICER. (a) This section does
	not apply to a district with an entirely elected board or the Upper
	Neches River Municipal Water Authority.
	(b) The governor shall designate a member of the board of a
	river authority as the presiding officer of the board to serve in
	that capacity at the pleasure of the governor.
	SECTION 3. (a) In this section, "river authority" has the
	meaning assigned by Section 150.0001, Water Code, as added by this
	Act.
	(b) For each river authority for which the governor was not
	required to designate a presiding officer of the board of directors
	for that river authority before the effective date of this Act and
	for which the governor is required to designate a presiding officer
	under Section 150.0002, Water Code, as added by this Act, the
	governor shall designate a presiding officer of the board of
	directors of the river authority not later than January 31, 2020.
	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.