Bill Text: TX HB1867 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the election of board members and filling of vacant board positions for emergency services districts in certain counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-05 - Referred to County Affairs [HB1867 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1867-Introduced.html
86R10823 JXC-D | ||
By: Pacheco | H.B. No. 1867 |
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relating to the election of board members and filling of vacant | ||
board positions for emergency services districts in certain | ||
counties. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 775.034(h), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(h) This section does not apply to a district located wholly | ||
in a county: | ||
(1) with a population of more than three million; | ||
(2) with a population of more than 200,000 that | ||
borders Lake Palestine; [ |
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(3) with a population of less than 200,000 that | ||
borders another state and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway; or | ||
(4) with a population of more than 1.5 million that | ||
does not border another county with a population of more than 1.5 | ||
million. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 775.0345(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) This section applies only to a district located wholly | ||
in a county: | ||
(1) with a population of more than three million; | ||
(2) with a population of more than 200,000 that | ||
borders Lake Palestine; [ |
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(3) with a population of less than 200,000 that | ||
borders another state and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway; or | ||
(4) with a population of more than 1.5 million that | ||
does not border another county with a population of more than 1.5 | ||
million. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 775.0355(b), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) This section applies only to a district located wholly | ||
in a county: | ||
(1) with a population of more than three million; | ||
(2) with a population of more than 200,000 that | ||
borders Lake Palestine; [ |
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(3) with a population of less than 200,000 that | ||
borders another state and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway; or | ||
(4) with a population of more than 1.5 million that | ||
does not border another county with a population of more than 1.5 | ||
million. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 775.0445(b), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) This section applies only to a district located wholly | ||
in a county: | ||
(1) with a population of more than three million; | ||
(2) with a population of more than 200,000 that | ||
borders Lake Palestine; [ |
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(3) with a population of less than 200,000 that | ||
borders another state and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway; or | ||
(4) with a population of more than 1.5 million that | ||
does not border another county with a population of more than 1.5 | ||
million. | ||
SECTION 5. Section 775.082(e-1), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(e-1) When a district located wholly in one county fails to | ||
complete and file the audit report by September 1 of each year and a | ||
county auditor is not ordered to prepare the report, the president | ||
and treasurer of the board are removed from the board and the | ||
commissioners court shall fill the vacancies for the remainder of | ||
the unexpired term [ |
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SECTION 6. (a) This Act does not prohibit a person who is a | ||
commissioner on the effective date of this Act and who was appointed | ||
under Section 775.034, Health and Safety Code, from running for | ||
election to the board if the person has the qualifications required | ||
for a member under Section 775.0345, Health and Safety Code, as | ||
amended by this Act. | ||
(b) The terms of the members of a board of emergency | ||
services commissioners serving on the effective date of this Act | ||
who were appointed under Section 775.034, Health and Safety Code, | ||
before the effective date of this Act expire on the date a majority | ||
of the members of the initial board of emergency services | ||
commissioners elected under Subsection (c) of this section qualify | ||
to serve. | ||
(c) The county judge of a county with an emergency services | ||
district to which Section 775.0345(a)(4), Health and Safety Code, | ||
as added by this Act, applies on the effective date of this Act and | ||
to which Section 775.034, Health and Safety Code, previously | ||
applied, shall establish an election to elect the initial emergency | ||
services commissioners of that district in the manner required by | ||
Section 775.0345, Health and Safety Code, for election of the | ||
initial commissioners as if the district had been created on the | ||
effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2020. |