H.B. No. 1600
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to changing the name of the El Paso County Lower Valley
    1-3  Water District Authority to the Lower Valley Water District.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 1, Chapter 780, Acts of the 69th
    1-6  Legislature, Regular Session, 1985, is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 1.  By virtue of Article XVI, Section 59, of the Texas
    1-8  Constitution a conservation and reclamation district is hereby
    1-9  created to be known as the <El Paso County> Lower Valley Water
   1-10  District <Authority> (hereinafter called "authority"), which shall
   1-11  be a governmental agency and a body politic and corporate.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  Section 2A, Chapter 780, Acts of the 69th
   1-13  Legislature, Regular Session, 1985, is amended to read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 2A.  If the Homestead Municipal Utility District No. 1
   1-15  or Homestead Municipal Utility District No. 2 is established by Act
   1-16  of the 69th Legislature, Regular Session, 1985, and receives the
   1-17  required subsequent approval of the qualified voters at a
   1-18  confirmation election, the territory of the approved district is
   1-19  excluded from the boundaries of the <El Paso County> Lower Valley
   1-20  Water District <Authority>.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  Section 3(g), Chapter 780, Acts of the 69th
   1-22  Legislature, Regular Session, 1985, is amended to read as follows:
   1-23        (g)  If the board determines that in order to ensure fair
   1-24  representation it would be in the best interest of the people of
    2-1  the <El Paso County> Lower Valley Water District <Authority> to
    2-2  change the method by which directors are elected, then the board
    2-3  may adopt any plan of redistricting, including a plan based on
    2-4  equal geographical areas, that is in conformity with the laws and
    2-5  constitutions of both Texas and the United States.
    2-6        SECTION 4.  The name change made by this Act does not affect
    2-7  the obligations or powers of the entity formerly known as the El
    2-8  Paso County Lower Valley Water District Authority.
    2-9        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-14  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-15  passage, and it is so enacted.