1-1     By:  Nixon (Senate Sponsor - Lindsay)                 H.B. No. 3594

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 1997;

 1-3     May 13, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 16, 1997, reported favorably by

 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 16, 1997, sent to

 1-6     printer.)

 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-8                                   AN ACT

 1-9     relating to granting additional powers to the Westchase District,

1-10     formerly known as the Westchase Area Management District.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 13, Chapter 491, Acts of the 74th

1-13     Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, is amended by adding Subsection

1-14     (h) to read as follows:

1-15           (h)  The district may, without additional procedures, grant

1-16     abatements for taxes or assessments owed to the district under

1-17     Chapter 312, Tax Code.

1-18           SECTION 2.  (a)  The legislature validates and confirms all

1-19     governmental acts and proceedings of the Westchase District and the

1-20     district's board of directors that occurred before the effective

1-21     date of this Act.

1-22           (b)  This section does not apply to any matter that on the

1-23     effective date of this Act:

1-24                 (1)  is involved in litigation if the litigation

1-25     ultimately results in the matter being held invalid by a final

1-26     judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction; or

1-27                 (2)  has been held invalid by a court of competent

1-28     jurisdiction.

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,

1-34     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-35     passage, and it is so enacted.

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