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.