By Lewis                                              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  districts.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  51.714, of the Texas Water Code, shall be amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 51.714.  Adding land by petition of landowner.
    1-8        The owner of land may file with the board a petition
    1-9  requesting that the land described by metes and bounds in the
   1-10  petition be included in the district.  Notwithstanding any city
   1-11  ordinances, resolutions, agreement with the district, or any other
   1-12  statute to the contrary, a city may not require such annexing
   1-13  district, or landowner requesting annexation, to obtain the city's
   1-14  consent to the district's annexation of the additional land so long
   1-15  as the land to be annexed is not located within that city's duly
   1-16  adopted service area or corporate limits at the time of the filing
   1-17  of the petition.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  EMERGENCY CLAUSE.  The importance of this
   1-19  legislation and the crowded condition of the calendars in both
   1-20  houses create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that
   1-21  the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-1  passage, and it is so enacted.