1-1     By:  Wentworth                                        S.B. No. 1137

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1997; March 13, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;

 1-4     April 10, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee

 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 10, 1997,

 1-6     sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1137               By:  Wentworth

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to the authority of certain municipal utility districts to

1-11     select the municipality in whose extraterritorial jurisdiction the

1-12     district is located and to validating and confirming certain acts

1-13     of municipal utility districts.

1-14           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-15           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 54, Water Code, is amended

1-16     by adding Section 54.0163 to read as follows:

1-17           Sec. 54.0163.  OPTION OF SELECTION OF EXTRATERRITORIAL

1-18     JURISDICTION FOR CERTAIN DISTRICTS.  (a)  The board of a district

1-19     that is located in the extraterritorial jurisdictions of more than

1-20     one municipality by resolution may select the municipality that may

1-21     exercise authority within the district as a whole.  The resolution

1-22     must state the effective date.

1-23           (b)  As soon as practicable, the board shall file with each

1-24     affected municipality and in the real property records of each

1-25     county in which the district is located a certified copy of the

1-26     resolution.

1-27           (c)  On the effective date of the resolution, the district is

1-28     contained wholly in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the

1-29     municipality selected by the resolution for all purposes.  No

1-30     action or approval by a municipality not selected is required.

1-31           (d)  A board that has made a selection of extraterritorial

1-32     jurisdiction under Section 54.0162 may confirm the selection by the

1-33     adoption of a resolution under this section.  If the selection

1-34     under Section 54.0162 is confirmed under this subsection, the

1-35     selection is effective from the date of the original selection.

1-36           SECTION 2.  The legislature validates and confirms in all

1-37     respects all resolutions, orders, and other acts or attempted acts

1-38     of a board of directors of a municipal utility district adopted or

1-39     taken under Section 54.0162, Water Code, before the effective date

1-40     of this Act.

1-41           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-42     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-43     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-44     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-45     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-46     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-47     passage, and it is so enacted.

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