By Patterson                                            S.B. No. 92

         Substitute the following for S.B. No. 92:

         By Lewis of Orange                                  C.S.S.B. No. 92

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the authority of the Bayview Municipal Utility District

 1-3     of Galveston County to install and assess for street lighting.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 245, Acts of the 58th Legislature,

 1-6     Regular Session, 1963 (Article 8280-287, Vernon's Texas Civil

 1-7     Statutes), is amended by adding Section 2A to read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 2A.  (a)  After voter approval, the District may:

 1-9                 (1)  install, operate, and maintain street lighting

1-10     within a public utility easement or public right-of-way inside the

1-11     District's boundaries; and

1-12                 (2)  assess the cost of installing, operating, and

1-13     maintaining the street lighting as an additional charge in the

1-14     monthly billings of the District's customers.

1-15           (b)  This section does not authorize the District to install,

1-16     operate, or maintain street lighting on a right-of-way that is part

1-17     of the designated state highway system.

1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.