By Cook H.B. No. 2563 75R1324 JMC-D 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 An Act creating an underground water conservation 1-6 district enacted by the 71st, 72nd, or 73rd Legislature is repealed 1-7 unless the district has been approved at a confirmation election on 1-8 or before the second anniversary of the effective date of this Act. 1-9 The repeal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 If an Act creating an underground water 1-11 conservation district is repealed under this Act, the district has 1-12 no further authority, except that any debts incurred shall be paid 1-13 and the organization of the district shall be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.