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      By Culberson                                    H.B. No. 3393

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the exclusion of unserved property from certain water

 1-3     conservation and reclamation districts.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 50.501 of the Water Code is amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           SUBCHAPTER N.  EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN UNSERVED PROPERTY. 

 1-8           Sec. 50.501.  Applicability.  This subchapter applies only to

 1-9     a district that:

1-10                 (1)  provides potable or treated water supply services

1-11     or wastewater services;

1-12                 (2)  imposes a tax on property in the district at a

1-13     rate that does not exceed [$1.20] $3.00 per $100 assessed

1-14     valuation; and

1-15                 (3)  does not impose a standby fee, as defined by

1-16     Section 50.056.

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.