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.
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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