By Parra                                              H.B. No. 2575
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the creation and operation of regional districts water,
    1-3  sanitary sewer, and wastewater drainage purposes in certain
    1-4  counties.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 50.451, Water Code is amended to read as
    1-7  follows:
    1-8        Sec. 50.451.  Purpose and Application.
    1-9        (a)  The purpose of this subchapter is to authorize creation
   1-10  and operation of regional districts for water, sanitary sewer, and
   1-11  wastewater drainage purposes under Article XVI, Section 59, of the
   1-12  Texas Constitution.
   1-13        (b)  This subchapter applies only in <a county> the following
   1-14  counties:  <with a population of at least 2.2 million, according to
   1-15  the most recent federal census, or which borders a county with a
   1-16  population of at least 2.2 million, according to the most recent
   1-17  federal census>
   1-18              (1)  a county with the population of at least 2.2
   1-19  million according to the most recent federal census, or which
   1-20  borders a county with a population of at least 2.2 million,
   1-21  according to the most recent federal census; and
   1-22              (2)  a county that has a population of 400,000 or more
   1-23  according to the most recent federal census, borders the Republic
    2-1  of Mexico, and does not have three or more cities that each have a
    2-2  population of more than 17,500.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  This act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended and this rule is hereby suspended.