By: Krusee H.B. No. 1794 73R4269 MI-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to local regulation of water quality and impervious cover 1-3 in certain municipalities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 401, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 401.004 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 401.004. REGULATION OF WATER QUALITY AND IMPERVIOUS 1-8 COVER. (a) This section applies only to a municipality that: 1-9 (1) has a population of less than 30,000; 1-10 (2) is geographically located over the Northern 1-11 Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone as defined by the Texas Natural 1-12 Resource Conservation Commission; 1-13 (3) has adopted by ordinance a comprehensive plan to 1-14 guide community growth, development, and redevelopment; 1-15 (4) has established a municipal drainage utility 1-16 system in accordance with Subchapter C, Chapter 402, of this code; 1-17 (5) has established by ordinance local regulations 1-18 governing the maximum allowable amount of impervious coverage of 1-19 land area according to the type of land use; and 1-20 (6) has adopted performance standards for water 1-21 quality that meet or exceed the Lower Colorado River Authority Lake 1-22 Travis Non-Point Source Pollution Control Ordinance adopted January 1-23 1991, 2d Edition. 1-24 (b) A state agency may not administer or enforce in a 2-1 municipality or in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a 2-2 municipality rules concerning water quality or impervious coverage 2-3 that are more stringent than the agency's rules in effect on 2-4 January 1, 1993. 2-5 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.