By Rodriguez                                          H.B. No. 3035
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the use of water loan assistance fund for purposes
    1-3  designated by legislative appropriation.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 15.102(b) of the Texas Water Code is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 15.102.  Financial Assistance.  (b)  The loan fund may
    1-8  also be used by the board to provide grants for:
    1-9              (1)  projects that include supplying water and
   1-10  wastewater services in economically distressed areas, including
   1-11  projects involving retail distribution of those services, or
   1-12              (2)  projects identified in legislative appropriations.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-19  passage, and it is so enacted.