By: Wentworth S.B. No. 757 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to water quality protection zones. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Section 26.179, Water Code, as added by Chapter 1-4 975, Acts of the 74th Legislature, 1995, is amended by adding 1-5 Subsections (o) and (p) to read as follows: 1-6 (o) If a municipality's action results in part of a zone 1-7 being located outside the municipality's extraterritorial 1-8 jurisdiction, the entire zone is removed from the municipality's 1-9 extraterritorial jurisdiction. A zone removed from a 1-10 municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction may not be brought 1-11 into the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction before the 1-12 20th anniversary of the date on which the zone was designated. 1-13 (p) In addition to the fees authorized under Subsection (g), 1-14 the commission shall adopt and assess reasonable and necessary fees 1-15 adequate to recover the commission's costs in monitoring water 1-16 quality associated with water quality protection zones. 1-17 SECTION 2. Section 1 of this Act applies to any action taken 1-18 by a municipality after January 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, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.