By Yarbrough H.B. No. 1783 74R6047 CBH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of certain counties to charge a fee for 1-3 installing or replacing water or sewer lines. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 13, Water Code, is amended 1-6 by adding Section 13.256 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 13.256. COUNTY FEE. (a) Notwithstanding any other 1-8 provision of law, a county with a population of more than 2.8 1-9 million may not charge a water and sewer utility a fee for the 1-10 privilege of installing or replacing a water or sewer line in the 1-11 county's right-of-way. 1-12 (b) This section does not affect a franchise agreement or 1-13 other contract entered into before September 1, 1995. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.