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         By Puente                                             H.B. No. 2979

         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2979:

         By Turner of Coleman                              C.S.H.B. No. 2979

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the protection of the water supply of a municipality.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 401.002(a), Local Government Code, is

 1-5     amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (a)  A home-rule municipality may prohibit the pollution or

 1-7     degradation of and may police a stream, drain, recharge feature,

 1-8     recharge area, or tributary that may constitute or recharge the

 1-9     source of water supply of any municipality.

1-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.