S.B. No. 987 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. Section 402.053, Government Code, is amended by 2-2 adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 2-3 (d) A municipality may exempt property owned by a religious 2-4 organization that is exempt from taxation pursuant to Section 2-5 11.20, Tax Code, from drainage charges under this subchapter. 2-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.