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.