S.B. No. 587 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.