By: Raymond H.B. No. 2176
73R4336 MI-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the Brush Country Underground Water Conservation
1-3 District.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. DEFINITION. In this Act, "district" means the
1-6 Brush Country Underground Water Conservation District.
1-7 SECTION 2. VALIDATION. All resolutions, orders, and other
1-8 acts or attempted acts of the board of directors of the district
1-9 including the calling and holding of the confirmation and directors
1-10 election, the canvassing of the returns, declaring the results of
1-11 the election, and the organization of the board, are validated in
1-12 all respects. All resolutions, orders, acts or attempted acts of
1-13 the board of directors of the district, including the calling and
1-14 holding of the confirmation and directors election, the canvassing
1-15 of the returns, declaring the results of the election, and the
1-16 organization of the board are valid as though they were originally
1-17 legally authorized or accomplished.
1-18 SECTION 3. AMENDMENT. Sections 1 and 2, Chapter 715, Acts
1-19 of the 71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, are amended to read
1-20 as follows:
1-21 Sec. 1. Creation of District. Under Article XVI, Section
1-22 59, of the Texas Constitution, the Live Oak <Brush Country>
1-23 Underground Water Conservation District is created as a
1-24 governmental agency and body politic and corporate, authorized to
2-1 exercise the powers essential to the accomplishment of the purposes
2-2 of that constitutional provision and to exercise the rights,
2-3 powers, duties, privileges, and functions provided by this Act and
2-4 by Chapters 51 and 52, Water Code, and by other laws of this state
2-5 relating to underground water conservation districts.
2-6 Sec. 2. Definition. In this Act, "district" means the Live
2-7 Oak <Brush Country> Underground Water Conservation District.
2-8 SECTION 4. PENDING LITIGATION. This Act does not apply to
2-9 or affect litigation now pending in any court of competent
2-10 jurisdiction in this state to which the district is a party.
2-11 SECTION 5. TRANSITION. The change in name of the Brush
2-12 Country Underground Water Conservation District made by this Act
2-13 does not affect a power, duty, right, or obligation of the Brush
2-14 Country Underground Water Conservation District. A power, duty,
2-15 right, or obligation of the district under that name is a power,
2-16 duty, right, or obligation of the Live Oak Underground Water
2-17 Conservation District on the effective date of this Act.
2-18 SECTION 6. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation
2-19 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-24 passage, and it is so enacted.