S.B. No. 1657
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the boundaries of the Upper Trinity Regional Water
    1-2  District, to weighted voting by contracting entities, and to the
    1-3  validation of certain actions of the district.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 4, Chapter 1053, Acts of
    1-6  the 71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, is amended to read as
    1-7  follows:
    1-8        (c)  The boundaries of the district are coterminous with the
    1-9  boundaries of the county plus the entire area in the boundaries of
   1-10  any contract member or participating member, a portion of whose
   1-11  incorporated limits is partially in the boundaries of the county as
   1-12  those boundaries existed on the effective date of this Act, and
   1-13  including the area within the boundaries of the City of Irving,
   1-14  Dallas County, Texas.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  Chapter 1053, Acts of the 71st Legislature,
   1-16  Regular Session, 1989, is amended by adding Section 4A to read as
   1-17  follows:
   1-18        Sec. 4A.  EXPANSION OF BOUNDARIES.  (a)  The boundaries of
   1-19  the district may be expanded to include the area within the
   1-20  boundaries of the City of Irving, Dallas County, Texas, if the
   1-21  district and the City of Irving execute a contract member's
   1-22  contract or a participating member's contract not later than the
   1-23  second anniversary of the effective date of this section.
   1-24        (b)  Approval of a contract member's contract between the
    2-1  district and the City of Irving requires a three-quarters majority
    2-2  vote of the district's board of directors.  Approval of a
    2-3  participating member's contract between the district and the City
    2-4  of Irving requires a three-quarters majority vote of the weighted
    2-5  vote of all directors eligible to vote.
    2-6        SECTION 3.  Section 7, Chapter 1053, Acts of the 71st
    2-7  Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, is amended by adding Subsection
    2-8  (g) to read as follows:
    2-9        (g)  Regardless of the date on which an entity became a
   2-10  member, the entity is not entitled to a number of weighted votes
   2-11  that exceeds 25 percent of the weighted votes of all directors
   2-12  eligible to vote for a capital project.
   2-13        SECTION 4.  All resolutions, orders, and other acts or
   2-14  attempted acts of the board of directors of the Upper Trinity
   2-15  Regional Water District relating to any election, contract, or
   2-16  issuance of bonds or other obligations and the expenditure of funds
   2-17  in payment of the bonds and all other governmental and proprietary
   2-18  actions by the board of directors of that district are validated in
   2-19  all respects.  All the resolutions, orders, and other acts or
   2-20  attempted acts of the board of directors of the Upper Trinity
   2-21  Regional Water District and all elections, contracts, issuances of
   2-22  bonds or other obligations, and payments of the district are valid
   2-23  as though they originally had been legally authorized or
   2-24  accomplished.
   2-25        SECTION 5.  Section 4 of this Act does not apply to or affect
   2-26  litigation pending on the effective date of this Act in any court
   2-27  of competent jurisdiction in this state to which the district is a
    3-1  party.
    3-2        SECTION 6.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    3-7  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    3-8  passage, and it is so enacted.