By Tillery H.B. No. 776 75R8957 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a municipal drainage utility system. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 402.044(1), Local Government Code, is 1-5 amended to read as follows: 1-6 (1)(A) "Benefitted property" means an improved lot or 1-7 tract to which drainage service is made available under this 1-8 subchapter. 1-9 (B) "Benefitted property," in a municipality 1-10 with a population of more than 1,000,000 which is operating a 1-11 drainage utility system under this chapter, means a lot or tract, 1-12 but does not include land appraised for agricultural use, to which 1-13 drainage service is made available under this subchapter and which 1-14 discharges into a creek, river, slough, culvert, or other channel 1-15 that is part of the municipality's drainage utility system. 1-16 Sections 402.053(c)(2) and (c)(3) do not apply to a municipality 1-17 described in this subdivision. 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.