Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. Line and page numbers may not match official copy. By Keel 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 may file with the 1-8 board a petition requesting that the land described by metes and 1-9 bounds in the petition, whether contiquous or not to the defined 1-10 area, be included within a defined area previously established 1-11 pursuant to Section 51.518 of this Code. 1-12 (b) If the defined area has bonds, notes, or other 1-13 obligations outstanding or bonds payable in whole or in part from 1-14 taxes that have been voted but are unissued for the defined area, 1-15 the board may require the petitioner or petitioners to assume their 1-16 share of the outstanding bonds, notes, or other obligations and the 1-17 voted but unissued tax bonds of the defined area and authorize the 1-18 board to levy a tax on their property in each year in which any of 1-19 the bonds, notes, or other obligations payable in whole or in part 1-20 from taxation on the defined area are outstanding to pay their 1-21 share of the indebtedness. 1-22 (c) A petition of the landowner to add land to the defined 1-23 area shall be signed and executed in the manner provided by law for 1-24 the conveyance of real estate. 2-1 (d) The board shall hear and consider the petition and may 2-2 add to the defined area the land described in the petition if it is 2-3 feasible, practicable, and to the advantage of the defined area and 2-4 if the defined area's system and other improvements of the defined 2-5 area are sufficient or will be sufficient to supply the added land 2-6 without injuring land already in the defined area. 2-7 (e) If the defined area has bonds payable in whole or in 2-8 part from taxation of a defined area that are voted but unissued at 2-9 the time of annexation and the petitioners assume the bonds and 2-10 authorize the district to levy a tax on their property to pay the 2-11 bonds of the defined area, then the board may issue the voted but 2-12 unissued bonds even though the boundaries of the defined area have 2-13 been altered since the authorization of the bonds. 2-14 (f) The granted petition shall be filed for record and shall 2-15 be recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county or 2-16 counties in which the added land is located. 2-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.