By Rodriquez                                          H.B. No. 1092
       74R2965 PAM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a municipal drainage utility system.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 402.044, Local Government Code, is
    1-5  amended by amending Subdivision (1) and adding Subdivisions (10)
    1-6  and (11) to read as follows:
    1-7              (1)  "Benefitted property" means a lot or tract,
    1-8  including an improved lot or tract, to which drainage service is
    1-9  made available under this subchapter or that is capable of
   1-10  receiving or that <and which> receives water, wastewater, or
   1-11  electric utility service <from the municipality having jurisdiction
   1-12  to adopt this subchapter and declare the drainage of the
   1-13  municipality to be a public utility>.
   1-14              (10)  "Improved lot or tract" means a lot or tract
   1-15  that:
   1-16                    (A)  has a structure or other improvement on it;
   1-17  or
   1-18                    (B)  is used for activities that may impact water
   1-19  quality.
   1-20              (11)  "Wholly sufficient and privately owned drainage
   1-21  system" means a drainage system owned and operated by a person
   1-22  other than a municipal drainage utility system the drainage of
   1-23  which does not discharge into a creek, river, slew, culvert, or
   1-24  other channel that is part of a municipal drainage utility system.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  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.