By Hochberg H.B. No. 2787 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to cooperation between the Texas Department of 1-3 Transportation and local officials in flood-prone areas. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 6673g, Revised Statutes, as added by 1-6 Chapter 551, Acts of the 72nd Legislature, Regular Session, 1991, 1-7 is amended by adding a new Section 5 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 5. In a county covered under the provisions of Section 1-9 240.901, Local Government Code, and having more than 2.5 million 1-10 inhabitants according to the most recent decennial federal census, 1-11 the Department must submit plans for any road project or other 1-12 major facility that would affect drainage from the property on 1-13 which the project is located or affect the drainage pattern from 1-14 adjacent properties in a manner that might increase the potential 1-15 for flooding, to the county flood control district for approval 1-16 prior to commencing construction of the project. The flood control 1-17 district must determine whether the project will increase the 1-18 potential for flooding of any property within the county, and if it 1-19 so determines, the project may not be constructed until it is 1-20 modified in a manner wherein the flood control district determines 1-21 that no such threat of flooding is present. If the flood control 1-22 district initially determines that there is no such risk, the 1-23 project may proceed as planned unless modified. Any modification 2-1 to a project that has been approved either initially or subsequent 2-2 to agreement must be submitted to the flood control district for 2-3 approval under these same provisions. The commissioners court of 2-4 each affected county may adopt and and enforce rules necessary to 2-5 carry out the provisions of this subsection. 2-6 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded conditions of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.