1-1 By: Wentworth S.B. No. 757 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 25, 1997; February 27, 1997, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; 1-4 March 6, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; March 6, 1997, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 757 By: Wentworth 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to water quality protection zones. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Section 26.179, Water Code, as added by Chapter 1-13 975, Acts of the 74th Legislature, 1995, is amended by adding 1-14 Subsections (o) and (p) to read as follows: 1-15 (o) If a municipality's action results in part of a zone 1-16 being located outside the municipality's extraterritorial 1-17 jurisdiction, the entire zone is removed from the municipality's 1-18 extraterritorial jurisdiction. A zone removed from a 1-19 municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction may not be brought 1-20 into the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction before the 1-21 20th anniversary of the date on which the zone was designated. 1-22 (p) In addition to the fees authorized under Subsection (g), 1-23 the commission shall adopt and assess reasonable and necessary fees 1-24 adequate to recover the commission's costs in monitoring water 1-25 quality associated with water quality protection zones. 1-26 SECTION 2. Section 1 of this Act applies to any action taken 1-27 by a municipality after January 1, 1997. 1-28 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-33 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-34 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-35 * * * * *