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.