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.