1-1  By:  Serna (Senate Sponsor - Rosson)                  H.B. No. 1600
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 10, 1995;
    1-3  April 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Natural Resources; May 3, 1995, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 3, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to changing the name of the El Paso County Lower Valley
    1-9  Water District Authority to the Lower Valley Water District.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 1, Chapter 780, Acts of the 69th
   1-12  Legislature, Regular Session, 1985, is amended to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 1.  By virtue of Article XVI, Section 59, of the Texas
   1-14  Constitution a conservation and reclamation district is hereby
   1-15  created to be known as the <El Paso County> Lower Valley Water
   1-16  District <Authority> (hereinafter called "authority"), which shall
   1-17  be a governmental agency and a body politic and corporate.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  Section 2A, Chapter 780, Acts of the 69th
   1-19  Legislature, Regular Session, 1985, is amended to read as follows:
   1-20        Sec. 2A.  If the Homestead Municipal Utility District No. 1
   1-21  or Homestead Municipal Utility District No. 2 is established by Act
   1-22  of the 69th Legislature, Regular Session, 1985, and receives the
   1-23  required subsequent approval of the qualified voters at a
   1-24  confirmation election, the territory of the approved district is
   1-25  excluded from the boundaries of the <El Paso County> Lower Valley
   1-26  Water District <Authority>.
   1-27        SECTION 3.  Section 3(g), Chapter 780, Acts of the 69th
   1-28  Legislature, Regular Session, 1985, is amended to read as follows:
   1-29        (g)  If the board determines that in order to ensure fair
   1-30  representation it would be in the best interest of the people of
   1-31  the <El Paso County> Lower Valley Water District <Authority> to
   1-32  change the method by which directors are elected, then the board
   1-33  may adopt any plan of redistricting, including a plan based on
   1-34  equal geographical areas, that is in conformity with the laws and
   1-35  constitutions of both Texas and the United States.
   1-36        SECTION 4.  The name change made by this Act does not affect
   1-37  the obligations or powers of the entity formerly known as the El
   1-38  Paso County Lower Valley Water District Authority.
   1-39        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-40  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-41  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-42  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-43  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-44  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-45  passage, and it is so enacted.
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