By Hilderbran                                   H.B. No. 2582

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the authority of certain municipal utility districts to

 1-3     select the municipality in whose extraterritorial jurisdiction the

 1-4     district is located and to validating and confirming certain acts

 1-5     of municipal utility districts.

 1-6           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-7           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 54, Water Code, is amended

 1-8     by adding Section 54.0163 to  read as follows:

 1-9           Sec. 54.0163.  OPTION OF SELECTION OF EXTRATERRITORIAL

1-10     JURISDICTION FOR CERTAIN DISTRICTS.  (a)  The board of a district

1-11     that is located partly or wholly in the extraterritorial

1-12     jurisdiction of more than one municipality by resolution may select

1-13     the municipality that may exercise authority within the district as

1-14     a whole.  The resolution must state the effective date.

1-15           (b)  As soon as practicable, the board shall file with each

1-16     affected municipality and in the real property records of each

1-17     county in which the district is located a certified copy of the

1-18     resolution.

1-19           (c)  On the effective date of the resolution, the district is

1-20     contained wholly in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the

1-21     municipality selected by the resolution for all purposes.

1-22           (d)  A board that has made a selection of extraterritorial

1-23     jurisdiction under Section 54.0162 may confirm the selection by the

1-24     adoption of a resolution under this section.  If the selection

 2-1     under Section 54.0162 is confirmed under this subsection, the

 2-2     selection is effective from the date of the original selection.

 2-3           SECTION 2.  The legislature validates and confirms in all

 2-4     respects all resolutions, orders, and other acts or attempted acts

 2-5     of a board of directors of a municipal utility district adopted or

 2-6     taken under Section 54.0162, Water Code, before the effective date

 2-7     of this Act.  This section does not apply to a matter that is the

 2-8     subject of litigation on the effective date of this Act.

 2-9           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-14     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-15     passage, and it is so enacted.