Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. Line and page numbers may not match official copy. By Keel H.B. No. 1707 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to water quality protection zones. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 26.179, Water Code, is amended by adding 1-5 subsections (o) and (p) to read as follows: 1-6 (o) If a municipality's action results in part of a zone 1-7 being located outside the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the 1-8 municipality, then the entire zone shall be deemed to have been 1-9 removed from the extraterritorial jurisdiction. A zone removed 1-10 from a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction pursuant to 1-11 this paragraph may not be brought into the municipality's 1-12 extraterritorial jurisdiction before the expiration of ten years 1-13 from the date the zone was removed. 1-14 (p) The commission may utilize fees assessed under this 1-15 section for the purpose of administering this section. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.