By Keel H.B. No. 2654 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2654: By Bosse C.S.H.B. No. 2654 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to adding land to a defined area within a water control 1-3 and improvement district by petition of landowner. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter L, Chapter 51, Water Code, is amended 1-6 by adding Section 51.530a to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 51.530a. (a) The owner of land subject to a water 1-8 quality plan approved by the Commission may file with the board a 1-9 petition requesting that the land described by metes and bounds in 1-10 the petition, whether contiguous or not to the defined area, be 1-11 included within a defined area previously established pursuant to 1-12 Section 51.518 of this Code. 1-13 (b) If the defined area has bonds, notes, or other 1-14 obligations outstanding or bonds payable in whole or in part from 1-15 taxes that have been voted but are unissued for the defined area, 1-16 the board may require the petitioner or petitioners to assume their 1-17 share of the outstanding bonds, notes, or other obligations and the 1-18 voted but unissued tax bonds of the defined area and authorize the 1-19 board to levy a tax on their property in each year in which any of 1-20 the bonds, notes, or other obligations payable in whole or in part 1-21 from taxation on the defined area are outstanding to pay their 1-22 share of the indebtedness. 1-23 (c) A petition of the landowner to add land to the defined 1-24 area shall be signed and executed in the manner provided by law for 2-1 the conveyance of real estate. 2-2 (d) The board shall hear and consider the petition and may 2-3 add to the defined area the land described in the petition if it is 2-4 feasible, practicable, and to the advantage of the defined area and 2-5 if the defined area's system and other improvements of the defined 2-6 area are sufficient or will be sufficient to supply the added land 2-7 without injuring land already in the defined area. 2-8 (e) If the defined area has bonds payable in whole or in 2-9 part from taxation of a defined area that are voted but unissued at 2-10 the time of annexation and the petitioners assume the bonds and 2-11 authorize the district to levy a tax on their property to pay the 2-12 bonds of the defined area, then the board may issue the voted but 2-13 unissued bonds even though the boundaries of the defined area have 2-14 been altered since the authorization of the bonds. 2-15 (f) The granted petition shall be filed for record and shall 2-16 be recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county or 2-17 counties in which the added land is located. 2-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.