By Keel H.B. No. 3589 75R13503 MRB-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to authorizing Lakeway Municipal Utility District to 1-3 exclude land from its boundaries, providing notice of the 1-4 exclusion, and adding other related provisions. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. In this Act: 1-7 (1) "District" means Lakeway Municipal Utility 1-8 District, Travis County, Texas, created by order of the Texas Water 1-9 Rights Commission on February 17, 1972. 1-10 (2) "Board" means the board of directors of the 1-11 district. 1-12 SECTION 2. EXCLUSION OF LAND. The board in its sole 1-13 discretion may call a hearing to consider excluding land from the 1-14 district, or the board may determine not to call a hearing to 1-15 exclude land from the district. If the board holds a hearing, the 1-16 board may by order exclude from the district land within the 1-17 district boundaries on any of the grounds for exclusion included in 1-18 Section 49.306, Water Code, if: 1-19 (1) the board receives a petition, signed by the 1-20 owners of the land to be excluded and consented to by all persons 1-21 holding liens on the land, requesting exclusion of the land as 1-22 described by metes and bounds; and 1-23 (2) the owners of the land pay to the district a 1-24 payment and any other fees or costs required by the district. 2-1 SECTION 3. NOTICE OF HEARING. In addition to the notice 2-2 required by Section 49.304, Water Code, the district shall publish 2-3 notice of the exclusion hearing in a nationally recognized 2-4 financial journal and shall mail notice by certified mail to the 2-5 paying agent or registrar of the district's outstanding bonds. The 2-6 notice shall be published and mailed not later than the 30th day 2-7 before the hearing date, advising any district bondholder, 2-8 taxpayer, or other interested party that the person may appear at 2-9 the exclusion hearing in support of or in opposition to the 2-10 petition for exclusion. 2-11 SECTION 4. EXCLUSION AND BOND REFUNDING. The exclusion 2-12 authorized by this Act may be done contemporaneously with a 2-13 refunding of the district's outstanding bonds. If the exclusion is 2-14 done in that manner, the only notice required is the notice 2-15 specified by Section 49.304, Water Code. 2-16 SECTION 5. OTHER APPLICABLE LAW. Sections 49.307 and 2-17 49.308, Water Code, apply to all exclusions of land under this Act. 2-18 SECTION 6. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 2-19 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-24 passage, and it is so enacted.