By:  Turner                                            S.B. No. 987
       73R4256 DWS-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the service area for a municipal drainage utility
    1-3  system.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 402.044(8), Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7              (8)  "Service area" means the municipal boundaries and
    1-8  any other land areas outside the municipal boundaries which, as a
    1-9  result of topography or hydraulics, contribute overland flow into
   1-10  the watersheds served by the drainage system of a municipality;
   1-11  provided, however, that in no event may a service area extend
   1-12  farther than the boundaries of a municipality's current
   1-13  extraterritorial jurisdiction, nor may a service area of one
   1-14  municipality extend into the boundaries of another incorporated
   1-15  town, city, or municipality.   The service area is to be
   1-16  established in the ordinance establishing the drainage utility.
   1-17  Provided, that no municipality shall extend a service area outside
   1-18  of its municipal boundaries except:
   1-19                    (A)  a municipality of more than 400,000
   1-20  population located in one or more counties of less than 600,000
   1-21  population according to the most recent federal census; or
   1-22                    (B)  a municipality all or part of which is
   1-23  located over or within the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone or the
   1-24  Edwards Aquifer transition zone, as designated by the Texas Water
    2-1  Commission.
    2-2        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-7  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-8  passage, and it is so enacted.