75R8957 CAG-D                           

         By Tillery                                             H.B. No. 776

         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 776:

         By Hill                                            C.S.H.B. No. 776

                                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.