By Wentworth S.B. No. 1137 75R6441 JJT-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of certain municipal utility districts to 1-3 select the municipality in whose extraterritorial jurisdiction the 1-4 district is located and to validating and confirming certain acts 1-5 of municipal utility districts. 1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-7 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 54, Water Code, is amended 1-8 by adding Section 54.0163 to read as follows: 1-9 Sec. 54.0163. OPTION OF SELECTION OF EXTRATERRITORIAL 1-10 JURISDICTION FOR CERTAIN DISTRICTS. (a) The board of a district 1-11 that is located partly or wholly in the extraterritorial 1-12 jurisdiction of more than one municipality by resolution may select 1-13 the municipality that may exercise authority within the district as 1-14 a whole. The resolution must state the effective date. 1-15 (b) As soon as practicable, the board shall file with each 1-16 affected municipality and in the real property records of each 1-17 county in which the district is located a certified copy of the 1-18 resolution. 1-19 (c) On the effective date of the resolution, the district is 1-20 contained wholly in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the 1-21 municipality selected by the resolution for all purposes. 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 1-24 adoption of a resolution under this section. If the selection 2-1 under Section 54.0162 is confirmed under this subsection, the 2-2 selection is effective from the date of the original selection. 2-3 SECTION 2. The legislature validates and confirms in all 2-4 respects all resolutions, orders, and other acts or attempted acts 2-5 of a board of directors of a municipal utility district adopted or 2-6 taken under Section 54.0162, Water Code, before the effective date 2-7 of this Act. This section does not apply to a matter that is the 2-8 subject of litigation on the effective date of this Act. 2-9 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-15 passage, and it is so enacted.