By:  Harris of Tarrant, Nelson                        S.B. No. 1485
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the method of dissolution for certain municipal utility
    1-2  districts.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 14, Chapter 1030, Acts of the 70th
    1-5  Legislature, Regular Session, 1987, is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 14.  Dissolution of District.  The district may be
    1-7  dissolved as provided by Section 43.074, Local Government Code
    1-8  <Notwithstanding Chapter 128, Acts of the 50th Legislature, Regular
    1-9  Session, 1947 (Article 1182c-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or
   1-10  any other general law, the district may be dissolved on approval of
   1-11  a two-thirds vote of the governing body of the town of Westlake, a
   1-12  two-thirds vote of the incumbent members of the board, and a
   1-13  two-thirds vote of the incumbent members of the board of any other
   1-14  districts that the district has contracted for the receipt or
   1-15  provision of regional or area wide water supply, wastewater
   1-16  disposal service, or any other service contract or agreement for a
   1-17  term in excess of 20 years>.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  Section 14, Chapter 1031, Acts of the 70th
   1-19  Legislature, Regular Session, 1987, is amended to read as follows:
   1-20        Sec. 14.  Dissolution of District.  The district may be
   1-21  dissolved as provided by Section 43.074, Local Government Code
   1-22  <Notwithstanding Chapter 128, Acts of the 50th Legislature, Regular
   1-23  Session, 1947 (Article 1182c-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or
   1-24  any other general law, the district may be dissolved on approval of
    2-1  a two-thirds vote of the governing body of the town of Westlake, a
    2-2  two-thirds vote of the incumbent members of the board, and a
    2-3  two-thirds vote of the incumbent members of the board of any other
    2-4  districts that the district has contracted for the receipt or
    2-5  provision of regional or area wide water supply, wastewater
    2-6  disposal service, or any other service contract or agreement for a
    2-7  term in excess of 20 years>.
    2-8        SECTION 3.  Section 14, Chapter 1032, Acts of the 70th
    2-9  Legislature, Regular Session, 1987, is amended to read as follows:
   2-10        Sec. 14.  Dissolution of District.  The district may be
   2-11  dissolved as provided by Section 43.074, Local Government Code
   2-12  <Notwithstanding Chapter 128, Acts of the 50th Legislature, Regular
   2-13  Session, 1947 (Article 1182c-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or
   2-14  any other general law, the district may be dissolved on approval of
   2-15  a two-thirds vote of the governing body of the town of Westlake, a
   2-16  two-thirds vote of the incumbent members of the board, and the
   2-17  two-thirds vote of the incumbent members of the board of any other
   2-18  districts that the district has contracted for the receipt or
   2-19  provision of regional or areawide water supply, wastewater disposal
   2-20  service, or any other service contract or agreement for a term in
   2-21  excess of 20 years>.
   2-22        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-25  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-26  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-27  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    3-1  passage, and it is so enacted.