By:  Nelson                                           S.B. No. 1429
       73R9067 JD-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the rights, powers, privileges, authority, and
    1-3  functions of the Denton County Reclamation and Road District.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 4(a), Chapter 945, Acts of the 69th
    1-6  Legislature, Regular Session, 1985, is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  The district may exercise all of the rights, powers,
    1-8  privileges, authority, and functions conferred by the general law
    1-9  applicable to:
   1-10              (1)  levee improvement districts including Chapter 57,
   1-11  Water Code; <and>
   1-12              (2)  road utility districts including Chapter 13, Acts
   1-13  of the 68th Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1984 (Article 6674r-1,
   1-14  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes); and
   1-15              (3)  public improvement districts, including the
   1-16  rights, powers, privileges, authority, and functions conferred by
   1-17  Subchapter A, Chapter 372, Local Government Code.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-24  passage, and it is so enacted.