By Solis H.B. No. 2154 75R6706 JMC-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of the Texas Water Development Board to 1-3 provide grants of financial assistance from the water loan 1-4 assistance fund to irrigation districts. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 15.102(b), Water Code, is amended to read 1-7 as follows: 1-8 (b) The loan fund may also be used by the board to provide 1-9 grants to irrigation districts or for projects that include 1-10 supplying water and wastewater services in economically distressed 1-11 areas, including projects involving retail distribution of those 1-12 services. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.