By: Madla S.B. No. 1482 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the use of the water loan assistance fund for purposes 1-2 designated by legislative appropriation. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 15.102(b) of the Texas Water Code is 1-5 amended to read as follows: 1-6 (b) The loan fund may also be used by the board to provide 1-7 grants for: 1-8 (1) projects that include supplying water and 1-9 wastewater services in economically distressed areas, including 1-10 projects involving retail distribution of those services, or 1-11 (2) projects identified in legislative appropriations. 1-12 SECTION 2. EMERGENCY CLAUSE. The importance of this 1-13 legislation and the crowded condition of the calendars in both 1-14 houses create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that 1-15 the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.