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1-12     district enacted by the 71st, 72nd, or 73rd Legislature is repealed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1-17     conservation district is repealed under this Act, the district has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.

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