By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1137 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the authority of certain municipal utility districts to 1-2 select the municipality in whose extraterritorial jurisdiction the 1-3 district is located and to validating and confirming certain acts 1-4 of municipal utility districts. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 54, Water Code, is amended 1-7 by adding Section 54.0163 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 54.0163. OPTION OF SELECTION OF EXTRATERRITORIAL 1-9 JURISDICTION FOR CERTAIN DISTRICTS. (a) The board of a district 1-10 that is located in the extraterritorial jurisdictions of more than 1-11 one municipality by resolution may select the municipality that may 1-12 exercise authority within the district as a whole. The resolution 1-13 must state the effective date. 1-14 (b) As soon as practicable, the board shall file with each 1-15 affected municipality and in the real property records of each 1-16 county in which the district is located a certified copy of the 1-17 resolution. 1-18 (c) On the effective date of the resolution, the district is 1-19 contained wholly in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the 1-20 municipality selected by the resolution for all purposes. No 1-21 action or approval by a municipality not selected is required. 1-22 (d) A board that has made a selection of extraterritorial 1-23 jurisdiction under Section 54.0162 may confirm the selection by the 2-1 adoption of a resolution under this section. If the selection 2-2 under Section 54.0162 is confirmed under this subsection, the 2-3 selection is effective from the date of the original selection. 2-4 (e) This section does not apply to districts located in the 2-5 extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality with territory in 2-6 three or more counties, and no option of selection granted under 2-7 this section or validation by this Act shall apply to 2-8 municipalities so located. 2-9 SECTION 2. The legislature validates and confirms in all 2-10 respects all resolutions, orders, and other acts or attempted acts 2-11 of a board of directors of a municipal utility district adopted or 2-12 taken under Section 54.0162, Water Code, before the effective date 2-13 of this Act. 2-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-20 passage, and it is so enacted.