By:  Shelley                                           S.B. No. 587
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the authority of the Harris County Flood Control
    1-2  District to engage in wetlands mitigation programs and storm water
    1-3  quality and improvement programs.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  (a)  The Harris County Flood Control District may
    1-6  engage in wetlands mitigation projects and programs as provided by
    1-7  Article 6, Chapter 3, Acts of the 72nd Legislature, 1st Called
    1-8  Session, 1991 (Article 5421u, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), and
    1-9  its subsequent amendments.
   1-10        (b)  The Harris County Flood Control District may provide for
   1-11  or participate in the development, operation, or maintenance of
   1-12  local, state, or federal storm water quality control and
   1-13  improvement programs.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  Subdivision (6), Section 6.01, Chapter 3, Acts of
   1-15  the 72nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991 (Article 5421u,
   1-16  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
   1-17              (6)  "Political subdivision" means:
   1-18                    (A)  any county with a population of 2.1 million
   1-19  or more or a county adjacent to that county; or
   1-20                    (B)  a conservation and reclamation district
   1-21  established under Article XVI, Section 59, of the Texas
   1-22  Constitution, the boundaries of which are within a county with a
   1-23  population of 2.1 million or more and which is authorized under
   1-24  other law to participate in programs under this article.
    2-1        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-6  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-7  passage, and it is so enacted.