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.