By Rodriguez H.B. No. 378
75R3044 JMC-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the authority of the Bexar Metropolitan Water District
1-3 to issue bonds.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 49.181(h), Water Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (h) This section does not apply to a district if:
1-8 (1) the district's boundaries include one entire
1-9 county;
1-10 (2) the district was created by a special Act of the
1-11 legislature and:
1-12 (A) the district is located entirely within one
1-13 county;
1-14 (B) entirely within one or more home-rule
1-15 municipalities;
1-16 (C) the total taxable value of the real property
1-17 and improvements to the real property zoned by one or more
1-18 home-rule municipalities for residential purposes and located
1-19 within the district does not exceed 25 percent of the total taxable
1-20 value of all taxable property in the district, as shown by the most
1-21 recent certified appraisal tax roll prepared by the appraisal
1-22 district for the county; and
1-23 (D) the district was not required by law to
1-24 obtain commission approval of its bonds before the effective date
2-1 of this section;
2-2 (3) the district is a special water authority; [or]
2-3 (4) the district is governed by a board of directors
2-4 appointed in whole or in part by the governor, a state agency, or
2-5 the governing body or chief elected official of a municipality or
2-6 county and does not provide water and sewer services to residential
2-7 retail customers as its principal function; or
2-8 (5) the district was created by Chapter 306, Acts of
2-9 the 49th Legislature, Regular Session, 1945 (Article 8280-126,
2-10 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
2-11 SECTION 2. Section 49.183, Water Code, is amended by adding
2-12 Subsection (f) to read as follows:
2-13 (f) This section does not apply to the district created by
2-14 Chapter 306, Acts of the 49th Legislature, Regular Session, 1945
2-15 (Article 8280-126, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
2-16 SECTION 3. (a) The proper and legal notice of the intention
2-17 to introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this
2-18 Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a
2-19 copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies,
2-20 officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished
2-21 by the constitution and other laws of this state, including the
2-22 governor, who has submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Natural
2-23 Resource Conservation Commission.
2-24 (b) The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission has
2-25 filed its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor,
2-26 lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of representatives
2-27 within the required time.
3-1 (c) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
3-2 state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
3-3 to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled
3-4 and accomplished.
3-5 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
3-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-11 passage, and it is so enacted.