By Hochberg                                           H.B. No. 2785
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to cooperation between state agencies, political
    1-3  subdivisions, and flood control districts in projects affecting
    1-4  flooding in certain counties.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Section 240.901, Local Government
    1-7  Code, is amended by adding a new subsection (f) to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 240.901.  (f)  In a county covered under the provisions
    1-9  of this section and having more than 2.5 million inhabitants
   1-10  according to the most recent decennial federal census, any state
   1-11  agency or political subdivision that builds or modifies a road
   1-12  project or other major facility that would affect drainage from the
   1-13  property on which the project is located or affect the drainage
   1-14  pattern from adjacent properties in a manner that might increase
   1-15  the potential for flooding must submit plans for the proposed
   1-16  project to the county flood control district for approval prior to
   1-17  commencing construction of the project.  The flood control district
   1-18  must determine whether the project will increase the potential for
   1-19  flooding of any property within the county, and if it so
   1-20  determines, the project may not be constructed until it is modified
   1-21  in a manner wherein the flood control district determines that no
   1-22  such threat of flooding is present.  If the flood control district
   1-23  initially determines that there is no such risk, the project may
    2-1  proceed as planned unless modified.  Any modification to a project
    2-2  that has been approved either initially or subsequent to agreement
    2-3  must be submitted to the flood control district for approval under
    2-4  these same provisions.  The commissioners court may adopt and
    2-5  enforce rules necessary to carry this subsection.
    2-6        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-7        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded conditions of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.