By:  Haley                                             S.B. No. 249
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to sewer connections in municipalities.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 214.013, Local Government
    1-4  Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-5        (a)  A <home rule> municipality may:
    1-6              (1)  provide for a sanitary sewer system; and
    1-7              (2)  require property owners to connect to the sewer
    1-8  system.
    1-9        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.