By:  Turner, Wentworth                                 S.B. No. 987
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the service area for a municipal drainage utility
    1-2  system.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subdivision (8), Section 402.044, Local
    1-5  Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-6              (8)  "Service area" means the municipal boundaries and
    1-7  any other land areas outside the municipal boundaries which, as a
    1-8  result of topography or hydraulics, contribute overland flow into
    1-9  the watersheds served by the drainage system of a municipality;
   1-10  provided, however, that in no event may a service area extend
   1-11  farther than the boundaries of a municipality's current
   1-12  extraterritorial jurisdiction, nor may a service area of one
   1-13  municipality extend into the boundaries of another incorporated
   1-14  town, city, or municipality.   The service area is to be
   1-15  established in the ordinance establishing the drainage utility.
   1-16  Provided, that no municipality shall extend a service area outside
   1-17  of its municipal boundaries except:
   1-18                    (A)  a municipality of more than 400,000
   1-19  population located in one or more counties of less than 600,000
   1-20  population according to the most recent federal census; or
   1-21                    (B)  a municipality all or part of which is
   1-22  located over or within the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone or the
   1-23  Edwards Aquifer transition zone, as designated by the Texas Water
   1-24  Commission.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  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.