By: Krusee H.B. No. 1796 73R4255 DWS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to extension beyond a municipality's boundaries of certain 1-3 municipal regulations to protect water quality. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 26, Water Code, is amended 1-6 by adding Section 26.180 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 26.180. PROTECTION OF WATER QUALITY OF AQUIFER RECHARGE 1-8 ZONE. (a) This section applies only to a municipality all or part 1-9 of which is located over the northern Edwards Aquifer recharge 1-10 zone, as designated by the commission and which is an area of 1-11 interest to the entire state. 1-12 (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, 1-13 the governing body of a municipality may extend the application of 1-14 any ordinance of the municipality to an area within the 1-15 municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction as necessary to 1-16 protect the water quality of the aquifer. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.