By Greenberg                                          H.B. No. 2651
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to enforcement of collection of charges by Underground
    1-3  Water Conservation Districts.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 52.351, Texas Water Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7                SUBCHAPTER H.  TAXES AND <FEES> CHARGES
    1-8        Sec. 52.351.  (a)  The board may annually levy taxes to pay
    1-9  the bonds issued by the district that are payable in whole or in
   1-10  part by taxes.
   1-11        (b)  The board may annually levy taxes to pay the maintenance
   1-12  and operating expenses of the district at a rate not to exceed 50
   1-13  cents on each $100 of assessed valuation.
   1-14        (c)  The board may adopt rules and procedures to enforce all
   1-15  necessary charges for providing or making available any district
   1-16  service, facility or equipment.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  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.