H.B. No. 2667




AN ACT

relating to the election of a director of a municipal utility 
district.     
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 54, Water Code, is amended 
by adding Section 54.0225 to read as follows:
	Sec. 54.0225.  ELECTION OF DIRECTORS.  (a)  Notwithstanding 
any other law, the county clerk, or the county officer who performs 
the election duties of the county clerk, of the county in which the 
district is located shall administer an election for a member of the 
board.  This section shall not apply to an election in a district in 
which there are 10 or fewer qualified voters at the time the 
election is called.
	(b)  If the district is located in more than one county, the 
county clerk or other county officer of the county in which the most 
inhabitants of the district reside shall perform the election 
duties under Subsection (a).
	(c)  This section does not affect the duties of a board under 
Section 49.103.
	(d)  The district shall pay the county for election services 
required under this section in the manner provided by Subchapter D, 
Chapter 31, Election Code, for a contract to furnish election 
services.
	SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies to an 
election for a director of a municipal utility district ordered on 
or after the effective date of this Act.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 2667 was passed by the House on May 9, 
2005, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in Senate 
amendments to H.B. No. 2667 on May 27, 2005, by a non-record vote.

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                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	
I certify that H.B. No. 2667 was passed by the Senate, with 
amendments, on May 25, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 
0.

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                                                      Secretary of the Senate   



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              Governor