By Alexander H.B. No. 1059
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to sewer connections in municipalities.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Amend Section 214.013(a), Local Government Code,
1-5 to read as follows:
1-6 (a) A <home-rule> municipality may:
1-7 (1) provide for a sanitary sewer system; and
1-8 (2) require property owners to connect to the sewer
1-9 system.
1-10 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.