1-1 By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 15
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed April 11, 1997; April 14, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 April 24, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10,
1-5 Nays 0; April 24, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the maximum tax rate that may be levied by the Live Oak
1-9 Underground Water Conservation District to pay maintenance and
1-10 operating expenses.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 9, Chapter 715, Acts of the 71st
1-13 Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, is amended to read as follows:
1-14 Sec. 9. TAXES AND BONDS. (a) Except as provided by
1-15 Subsection (b) of this section, the [The] tax and bond provisions
1-16 of Subchapters F and G, Chapter 36, Subchapter F, Chapter 49, and
1-17 Subchapters K, L, M, N, and P, Chapter [Chapters] 51 [and 52],
1-18 Water Code, apply to the district.
1-19 (b) Notwithstanding Section 36.201(b), Water Code, the
1-20 district annually may levy taxes to pay the maintenance and
1-21 operating expenses of the district at a rate not to exceed five
1-22 cents on each $100 of assessed valuation.
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-28 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-29 passage, and it is so enacted.
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