By: Turner, Wentworth S.B. No. 988 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to extension beyond a municipality's boundaries of certain 1-2 municipal regulations to protect water quality. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 212, Local Government Code, 1-5 is amended by adding Section 212.0031 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 212.0031. EXTENSION OF RULES TO PROTECT WATER QUALITY 1-7 OF AQUIFER RECHARGE ZONE. (a) This section applies only to a 1-8 municipality: 1-9 (1) with a population of less than 30,000; and 1-10 (2) all or part of which is located over the northern 1-11 Edwards Aquifer recharge zone, as designated by the Texas Water 1-12 Commission and which is an area of interest to the entire state. 1-13 (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, 1-14 the governing body of a municipality to which this section applies 1-15 may extend the application of any municipal ordinance adopted under 1-16 Section 212.002 to an area within the municipality's 1-17 extraterritorial jurisdiction as necessary to protect the water 1-18 quality of the aquifer. 1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.