75R9366 JMC-D                           

         By Krusee                                              H.B. No. 666

         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 666:

         By Lewis of Orange                                 C.S.H.B. No. 666

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to authorizing certain municipal utility districts to

 1-3     repair and maintain streets and to issue bonds for that purpose.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 54, Water Code, is amended

 1-6     by adding Section 54.242 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 54.242.  STREET REPAIR OR MAINTENANCE.  A district

 1-8     created by general law or special act of the legislature in

 1-9     existence for at least 10 years may repair or maintain a street

1-10     within the district as provided by Section 54.522.

1-11           SECTION 2.  Subchapter F, Chapter 54, Water Code, is amended

1-12     by adding Section 54.522 to read as follows:

1-13           Sec. 54.522.  BONDS FOR STREET REPAIR OR MAINTENANCE.  (a)

1-14     The legislature finds that the condition of streets affects:

1-15                 (1)  the control, storage, preservation, and

1-16     distribution of the state's storm and flood waters;

1-17                 (2)  the control, abatement, or change of any shortage

1-18     or harmful excess of water; and

1-19                 (3)  a municipal utility district's ability to

1-20     accomplish its purposes.

1-21           (b)  It is the policy of the state to authorize a municipal

1-22     utility district in certain circumstances to take action that is

1-23     necessary to prevent the condition of a street within the district

1-24     from adversely affecting the control, storage, preservation, and

 2-1     distribution of the state's storm and flood waters, adversely

 2-2     affecting the control, abatement, or change of any shortage or

 2-3     harmful excess of water, or otherwise impeding a district's ability

 2-4     to accomplish its purposes.

 2-5           (c)  A district created by general law or special act of the

 2-6     legislature in existence for at least 10 years may issue bonds for

 2-7     the purpose of repairing or maintaining streets within the district

 2-8     if the bonds are authorized by a majority vote of the resident

 2-9     electors of the district voting in an election called and held for

2-10     that purpose.

2-11           (d)  An election required by this section must be held on the

2-12     uniform election date in November authorized by Section 41.001,

2-13     Election Code.  Notwithstanding Section 41.003, Election Code, an

2-14     election under this section may be held on the date of the general

2-15     election for state and county officers.

2-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-22     passage, and it is so enacted.