1-1     By:  Talton (Senate Sponsor - Patterson)              H.B. No. 3330

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1997;

 1-3     May 9, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural

 1-4     Resources; May 16, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 16, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to ownership of a drainage outfall ditch in Harris County.

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

1-10           SECTION 1.  (a)  Any easement or other ownership interest

1-11     held by the Texas Department of Transportation, Harris County, the

1-12     City of Houston, or any other state or local governmental entity in

1-13     the drainage outfall ditch that has been designated by the Harris

1-14     County Flood Control District as Unit C106-03-00 and that runs from

1-15     I45 (the Gulf Freeway) to Sims Bayou, in Harris County, is

1-16     transferred to the Harris County Flood Control District, and the

1-17     Harris County Flood Control District has authority over that

1-18     drainage outfall ditch.

1-19           (b)  The assumption by the Harris County Flood Control

1-20     District of authority over the drainage outfall ditch, including

1-21     maintaining or repairing the ditch, is adequate and fair

1-22     consideration for the ownership interests transferred to the flood

1-23     control district.

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

1-25     ownership interests in the ditch designated by the Harris County

1-26     Flood Control District as Unit C106-03-00 are transferred to and

1-27     rest solely in the Harris County Flood Control District on that

1-28     date and thereafter.

1-29           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-30     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-31     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-32     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-33     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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