1-1 By: Shelley S.B. No. 587 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 3, 1993; March 3, 1993, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; 1-4 March 16, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 1; March 16, 1993, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE 1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent 1-9 Sims x 1-10 Truan x 1-11 Armbrister x 1-12 Barrientos x 1-13 Bivins x 1-14 Brown x 1-15 Carriker x 1-16 Lucio x 1-17 Montford x 1-18 Ratliff x 1-19 Shelley x 1-20 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 587 By: Shelley 1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-22 AN ACT 1-23 relating to the authority of the Harris County Flood Control 1-24 District to engage in wetlands mitigation programs and storm water 1-25 quality and improvement programs. 1-26 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-27 SECTION 1. (a) The Harris County Flood Control District may 1-28 engage in wetlands mitigation projects and programs as provided by 1-29 Article 6, Chapter 3, Acts of the 72nd Legislature, 1st Called 1-30 Session, 1991 (Article 5421u, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), and 1-31 its subsequent amendments. 1-32 (b) The Harris County Flood Control District may provide for 1-33 or participate in the development, operation, or maintenance of 1-34 local, state, or federal storm water quality control and 1-35 improvement programs. 1-36 SECTION 2. Subdivision (6), Section 6.01, Chapter 3, Acts of 1-37 the 72nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991 (Article 5421u, 1-38 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 1-39 (6) "Political subdivision" means: 1-40 (A) any county with a population of 2.1 million 1-41 or more or a county adjacent to that county; or 1-42 (B) a conservation and reclamation district 1-43 established under Article XVI, Section 59, of the Texas 1-44 Constitution, the boundaries of which are within a county with a 1-45 population of 2.1 million or more and which is authorized under 1-46 other law to participate in programs under this article. 1-47 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-48 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-49 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-50 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-51 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-52 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-53 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-54 * * * * * 1-55 Austin, 1-56 Texas 1-57 March 16, 1993 1-58 Hon. Bob Bullock 1-59 President of the Senate 1-60 Sir: 1-61 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred S.B. 1-62 No. 587, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed 1-63 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do 1-64 not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof 1-65 do pass and be printed. 1-66 Sims, 1-67 Chairman 1-68 * * * * * 2-1 WITNESSES