1-1 By: Uher (Senate Sponsor - Patterson) H.B. No. 2870 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 17, 1993; 1-3 May 19, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural 1-4 Resources; May 25, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 25, 1993, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE 1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent 1-8 Sims x 1-9 Truan x 1-10 Armbrister x 1-11 Barrientos x 1-12 Bivins x 1-13 Brown x 1-14 Carriker x 1-15 Lucio x 1-16 Montford x 1-17 Ratliff x 1-18 Shelley x 1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-20 AN ACT 1-21 relating to conflicts of interest of certain persons in certain 1-22 contracts of certain fresh water supply districts. 1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-24 SECTION 1. Section 53.123, Water Code, is amended by adding 1-25 Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-26 (c) For a district that contains less than 2,200 acres 1-27 within its boundaries, is located in a county that is adjacent to 1-28 the Gulf of Mexico, and was created before 1956, a person may not 1-29 be held to have violated Subsection (a) of this section unless the 1-30 person's direct or indirect interest in the district's contract 1-31 violates Section 171.003, Local Government Code. A contract of a 1-32 district described by this section that is made in accordance with 1-33 Chapter 171, Local Government Code, is valid and enforceable 1-34 notwithstanding Subsection (a) of this section. 1-35 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-36 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-37 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-38 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-39 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-40 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-41 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-42 * * * * * 1-43 Austin, 1-44 Texas 1-45 May 25, 1993 1-46 Hon. Bob Bullock 1-47 President of the Senate 1-48 Sir: 1-49 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred H.B. 1-50 No. 2870, have had the same under consideration, and I am 1-51 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation 1-52 that it do pass and be printed. 1-53 Sims, 1-54 Chairman 1-55 * * * * * 1-56 WITNESSES 1-57 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 2870.