1-1     By:  Williams (Senate Sponsor - Lindsay)              H.B. No. 2851

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 1997;

 1-3     April 16, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Natural Resources; May 8, 1997, reported favorably by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 8, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the powers and duties of water supply corporations.

 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 65.001(10), Water Code, is amended to

1-11     read as follows:

1-12                 (10)  "Water supply corporation" means any

1-13     member-owned, consumer-owned water supply corporation created and

1-14     operating under Chapter 76, Acts of the 43rd Legislature, 1st

1-15     Called Session, 1933 (Article 1434a, Vernon's Texas Civil

1-16     Statutes), that:

1-17                       (A)  provides water supply services to

1-18     noncontiguous subdivisions in two or more counties, at least one of

1-19     which counties has a population greater than two million; or

1-20                       (B)  on or before January 1, 1985, was providing

1-21     the services of a water supply corporation under a certificate of

1-22     convenience and necessity issued by the Public Utility Commission

1-23     of Texas.

1-24           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-25     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-26     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-27     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-28     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-29     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-30     passage, and it is so enacted.

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