By Lewis                                              H.B. No. 2182
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2182:
          By Yost                                           C.S.H.B. No. 2182
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the voluntary inclusion of land within certain water
    1-3  district.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 51.714, Water Code, is amended to read as
    1-6  follows:
    1-7        Sec. 51.714.  ADDING LAND BY PETITION OF LANDOWNER.  The
    1-8  owner of land may file with the board a petition requesting that
    1-9  the land described by metes and bounds in the petition be included
   1-10  in the district.  Notwithstanding any municipal ordinance,
   1-11  resolution, agreement with the district, or any other statute to
   1-12  the contrary, a municipality may not require the annexing district
   1-13  or the landowner who is requesting annexation to obtain the
   1-14  municipality's consent to the district's annexation of the
   1-15  additional land if, at the time the petition is filed, the land to
   1-16  be annexed is not located within the municipality's corporate
   1-17  limits or within an area designated by ordinance of the
   1-18  municipality's governing body as the municipality's water and sewer
   1-19  service area.  A municipality's consent shall not be required for
   1-20  the inclusion or annexation of irrigable land within the boundaries
   1-21  of a district primarily engaged in providing irrigation service to
   1-22  lands within its boundaries.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-5  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-6  passage, and it is so enacted.