1-1 By: Cook (Senate Sponsor - Duncan) H.B. No. 2563 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1997; 1-3 April 23, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Natural Resources; May 15, 1997, reported favorably by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 15, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to limiting the time within which certain water districts 1-9 are required to hold confirmation elections. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. An Act creating an underground water conservation 1-12 district enacted by the 71st, 72nd, or 73rd Legislature is repealed 1-13 unless the district has been approved at a confirmation election on 1-14 or before the second anniversary of the effective date of this Act. 1-15 The repeal takes effect on that second anniversary. 1-16 SECTION 2. If an Act creating an underground water 1-17 conservation district is repealed under this Act, the district has 1-18 no further authority, except that any debts incurred shall be paid 1-19 and the organization of the district shall be maintained until all 1-20 the debts are paid. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-26 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-27 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-28 * * * * *