By Shields H.B. No. 2258 74R1857 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of a municipality to impose a fee for 1-3 municipal drainage. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 402.053, Local Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-7 (e) The governing body of a municipality may not charge a 1-8 lot or tract of benefitted property a fee for drainage service 1-9 under this subchapter if the owner of the lot or tract takes 1-10 reasonable actions designed to prevent significant runoff from the 1-11 property. The governing body of a municipality shall charge a lot 1-12 or tract of benefitted property a reduced fee for drainage service 1-13 if the owner of the lot or tract has taken steps that reduce the 1-14 flow of runoff from the property. 1-15 SECTION 2. 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.