By Cook                                               H.B. No. 2563

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to limiting the time within which certain water districts

 1-3     are required to hold confirmation elections.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  An Act creating an underground water conservation

 1-6     district enacted by the 71st, 72nd, or 73rd Legislature is repealed

 1-7     unless the district has been approved at a confirmation election on

 1-8     or before the second anniversary of the effective date of this Act.

 1-9     The repeal takes effect on that second anniversary.

1-10           SECTION 2.  If an Act creating an underground water

1-11     conservation district is repealed under this Act, the district has

1-12     no further authority, except that any debts incurred shall be paid

1-13     and the organization of the district shall be maintained until all

1-14     the debts are paid.

1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.