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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.