73R9106 JJT-D
          By Uher                                               H.B. No. 2870
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to conflicts of interest of certain persons in certain
    1-3  contracts of certain fresh water supply districts.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 53.123, Water Code, is amended by adding
    1-6  Subsection (c) to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  For a district that contains less than 2,200 acres
    1-8  within its boundaries, is located in a county that is adjacent to
    1-9  the Gulf of Mexico, and was created before 1956, a person may not
   1-10  be held to have violated Subsection (a) of this section unless the
   1-11  person's direct or indirect interest in the district's contract
   1-12  violates Section 171.003, Local Government Code.  A contract of a
   1-13  district described by this section that is made in accordance with
   1-14  Chapter 171, Local Government Code, is valid and enforceable
   1-15  notwithstanding Subsection (a) of this section.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-22  passage, and it is so enacted.