By Talton                                       H.B. No. 3330

      75R6809 CAS-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to ownership of a drainage outfall ditch in Harris County.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  (a)  Any easement or other ownership interest

 1-5     held by the Texas Department of Transportation, Harris County, the

 1-6     City of Houston, or any other state or local governmental entity in

 1-7     the drainage outfall ditch that has been designated by the Harris

 1-8     County Flood Control District as Unit C106-03-00 and that runs from

 1-9     I45 (the Gulf Freeway) to Sims Bayou, in Harris County, is

1-10     transferred to the Harris County Flood Control District, and the

1-11     Harris County Flood Control District is solely responsible for that

1-12     drainage outfall ditch.

1-13           (b)  The assumption by the Harris County Flood Control

1-14     District of sole responsibility for the drainage outfall ditch,

1-15     including maintaining or repairing the ditch, is adequate and fair

1-16     consideration for the ownership interests transferred to the flood

1-17     control district.

1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-19     ownership interests in the ditch designated by the Harris County

1-20     Flood Control District as Unit C106-03-00 are transferred to and

1-21     rest solely in the Harris County Flood Control District on that

1-22     date and thereafter.

1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.