By: Fraser	S.B. No. 363

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to 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.  Section 10, Chapter 629, Acts of the 62nd
	Legislature, Regular Session, 1971 is amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 10.  ELECTION OF DIRECTORS.  Directors serve staggered
	four-year terms.  Every two years an election shall be held on the
	uniform election date in November to elect the appropriate number
	of directors.  [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
	for the election 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 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.