1-1     By:  Bonnen (Senate Sponsor - Patterson)              H.B. No. 2868

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 1997;

 1-3     May 13, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 16, 1997, reported favorably by

 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 16, 1997, sent to

 1-6     printer.)

 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-8                                   AN ACT

 1-9     relating to a master drainage plan for certain counties.                  

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Chapter 411, Local Government Code, is amended by

1-12     adding Section 411.007 to read as follows:

1-13           Sec. 411.007.  MASTER DRAINAGE PLAN FOR CERTAIN COUNTIES.

1-14     (a)  This section applies only to a county that:

1-15                 (1)  has a population of 190,000 or more, is adjacent

1-16     to a county with a population of 2,400,000 or more, and borders the

1-17     Gulf of Mexico; and

1-18                 (2)  operates a road department system under Subchapter

1-19     D, Chapter 252, Transportation Code.

1-20           (b)  The commissioners court may require the county road

1-21     engineer to prepare and coordinate a county master drainage plan.

1-22     The commissioners court by order may adopt regulations to implement

1-23     the county master drainage plan.

1-24           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-25           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-26     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-27     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-28     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-29     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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