By:  Puente                                           H.B. No. 2540
       73R6048 MI-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the abolition of the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Chapter 75, Acts of the 43rd Legislature, 1st
    1-5  Called Session, 1933 (Article 8280-106, Vernon's Texas Civil
    1-6  Statutes), is repealed.
    1-7        SECTION 2.  On the effective date of this Act:
    1-8              (1)  The Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority is abolished.
    1-9              (2)  The powers, duties, and responsibilities conferred
   1-10  by Chapter 75, Acts of the 43rd Legislature, 1st Called Session,
   1-11  1933 (Article 8280-106, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), are
   1-12  transferred to the Texas Water Development Board.
   1-13              (3)  All assets, including real property, records,
   1-14  equipment, data, documents, facilities, and any other tangible or
   1-15  intangible personal property of the Guadalupe-Blanco River
   1-16  Authority, are transferred to the Texas Water Development Board.
   1-17              (4)  All outstanding obligations and liabilities of the
   1-18  Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority are the obligations and
   1-19  liabilities of the Texas Water Development Board.
   1-20              (5)  All employees of the Guadalupe-Blanco River
   1-21  Authority who are not exempt from the requirements of the federal
   1-22  wage and hour laws and any legal, engineering, and other
   1-23  administrative staff that are necessary to assist the Texas Water
   1-24  Water Development Board in administering the powers, duties, and
    2-1  responsibilities transferred to the board by this Act are
    2-2  transferred to the Texas Water Development Board.  This subdivision
    2-3  does not transfer to the board outside consultants currently
    2-4  associated with the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority, including
    2-5  outside legal counsel, or the general manager, as described in
    2-6  Section 5 of Chapter 75, Acts of the 43rd Legislature, 1st Called
    2-7  Session, 1933 (Article 8280-106, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
    2-8              (6)  All cash, receivables, and cash equivalents in the
    2-9  possession of the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority shall be
   2-10  deposited in the general revenue fund to the credit of the Texas
   2-11  Water Development Board.
   2-12        SECTION 3.  The abolition of the Guadalupe-Blanco River
   2-13  Authority and the transfer of powers, duties, and obligations made
   2-14  under this Act does not affect or impair any bonds authorized or
   2-15  issued, or any obligation, right, permit, license, standard, rule,
   2-16  criterion, order, or penalty that accrued or existed under the
   2-17  Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority, and those bonds, obligations,
   2-18  rights, permits, licenses, standards, rules, and criteria remain in
   2-19  effect until they are paid, recalled, changed, altered, renewed,
   2-20  amended, canceled, revoked, repealed, or abolished under the laws
   2-21  of this state.
   2-22        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-25  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-26  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-27  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    3-1  passage, and it is so enacted.