By:  Sibley                                           S.B. No. 1711
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the authority of cities to contract for water supply
    1-2  from the Upper Leon River Municipal Water District.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 16, Chapter 405, Acts of the 57th
    1-5  Legislature, Regular Session, 1961 (Article 8280-257, Vernon's
    1-6  Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 16.  The District is authorized to enter into contracts
    1-8  with Potential Cities, cities which may later be annexed, and
    1-9  others for supplying water to them.  The District is also
   1-10  authorized to contract with any Potential City or city to be later
   1-11  annexed, for the rental or leasing of, or for the operation of the
   1-12  water production, water supply, water filtration or purification
   1-13  and water supply facilities of such city upon such consideration as
   1-14  the District and the city may agree.  Any such contract may be upon
   1-15  such terms and for such time as the parties may agree, and it may
   1-16  provide that it shall continue in effect until any bonds specified
   1-17  therein and refunding bonds issued in lieu of such bonds are paid.
   1-18  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act to the contrary,
   1-19  each Potential City, Constituent City or other city hereafter
   1-20  annexed to or desiring to obtain water from the District is hereby
   1-21  granted authority to enter into any contract with the District for
   1-22  the purchase of water or other services, or for any other purpose
   1-23  within the powers, rights, privileges, and functions of the
    2-1  District without the necessity of calling or holding an election
    2-2  related thereto and said authority is hereby vested exclusively in
    2-3  the governing body of each Potential City, Constituent City or
    2-4  other city hereafter annexed to or desiring to obtain water from
    2-5  the District notwithstanding any provision of this Act, of any home
    2-6  rule charter or of any local ordinance of any such city, or of any
    2-7  provision of other law placing any restriction, limitation, or
    2-8  requirement on the authority of the governing body of any such city
    2-9  to enter into any such contract.  No provision of the home rule
   2-10  charter or of any other ordinance of any Potential City,
   2-11  Constituent City or other city hereafter annexed to or desiring to
   2-12  obtain water from the District, and no provision of this Act or of
   2-13  any other law in conflict herewith, shall invalidate or impair, in
   2-14  whole or in part, the enforceability and validity of any contract
   2-15  entered into by the District with any such city pursuant to the
   2-16  powers, rights, privileges and functions of the District.
   2-17        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-22  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-23  passage, and it is so enacted.