S.B. No. 363

	AN ACT
	relating to the election dates for directors of the Bandera County
	River Authority and Groundwater District.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Chapter 654, Acts of the 71st Legislature,
	Regular Session, 1989, is amended by adding Section 1A and amending
	Section 10 to read as follows:
	Sec. 1A.  REFERENCE IN LAW MEANING BANDERA COUNTY RIVER
	AUTHORITY AND GROUNDWATER DISTRICT. The district name is the
	Bandera County River Authority and Groundwater District. A
	reference in law to the Springhills Water Management District means
	the Bandera County River Authority and Groundwater District.
	Sec. 10.  ELECTION OF DIRECTORS.  (a)  Directors serve
	staggered four-year terms.
	(b)  Every two years [On the first Saturday in May of the
	second year after the year in which the district is authorized to be
	created at a confirmation election,] an election shall be held in
	the district on the uniform election date in November for the
	election of the appropriate number of directors.  Two directors
	shall be elected from each commissioner precinct and one director
	shall be elected at large.  The director elected from each
	commissioner precinct who receives the fewer number of votes shall
	serve a two-year term, and the director elected from each
	commissioner precinct who receives the most votes and the director
	elected at large shall serve a four-year term.  Thereafter, on the
	same date in each subsequent second year, the appropriate number of
	directors shall be elected to the board.
	SECTION 2.  The term of a director elected to the board of
	the Bandera County River Authority and Groundwater District in May
	2013 expires on December 1, 2016, and the term of a director elected
	to the board in May 2015 expires December 1, 2018.
	SECTION 3.  (a)  The legislature finds that the Bandera
	County River Authority and Groundwater District was originally
	created by Chapter 629, Acts of the 62nd Legislature, Regular
	Session, 1971, as the Bandera County River Authority, and then
	modified or merged by Chapter 654, Acts of the 71st Legislature,
	Regular Session, 1989, as the Springhills Water Management
	District.
	(b)  The legislature further finds that the Springhills
	Water Management District was renamed the Bandera County River
	Authority and Groundwater District in 2003.
	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 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 September 1, 2015.
	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 363 passed the Senate on
	April 9, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 363 passed the House on
	May 19, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 146, Nays 0, two
	present not voting.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	Approved:
	______________________________
	Date
	______________________________
	Governor