By Nelson S.B. No. 1657 74R10815 MI-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the boundaries of the Upper Trinity Regional Water 1-3 District, to weighted voting by contracting entities, and to the 1-4 validation of certain actions of the district. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 4(c), Chapter 1053, Acts of the 71st 1-7 Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, is amended to read as 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.