1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to a master drainage plan for certain counties.                  

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Chapter 411, Local Government Code, is amended by

 1-5     adding Section 411.007 to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 411.007.  MASTER DRAINAGE PLAN FOR CERTAIN COUNTIES.

 1-7     (a)  This section applies only to a county that:

 1-8                 (1)  has a population of 190,000 or more, is adjacent

 1-9     to a county with a population of 2,400,000 or more, and borders the

1-10     Gulf of Mexico; and

1-11                 (2)  operates a road department system under Subchapter

1-12     D, Chapter 252, Transportation Code.

1-13           (b)  The commissioners court may require the county road

1-14     engineer to prepare and coordinate a county master drainage plan.

1-15     The commissioners court by order may adopt regulations to implement

1-16     the county master drainage plan.

1-17           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-18           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2868 was passed by the House on May

         10, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2868 was passed by the Senate on May

         26, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor