By Lindsay S.B. No. 1169 75R6645 JJT-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the powers and duties of water supply corporations; 1-3 validating certain actions of water supply corporations. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 65.001(10), Water Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (10) "Water supply corporation" means any 1-8 member-owned, consumer-owned water supply corporation created and 1-9 operating under Chapter 76, Acts of the 43rd Legislature, 1st 1-10 Called Session, 1933 (Article 1434a, Vernon's Texas Civil 1-11 Statutes), that: 1-12 (A) provides water supply services to 1-13 noncontiguous subdivisions in two or more counties, at least one of 1-14 which counties has a population greater than two million; or 1-15 (B) on or before January 1, 1985, was providing 1-16 the services of a water supply corporation under a certificate of 1-17 convenience and necessity issued by the Public Utility Commission 1-18 of Texas. 1-19 SECTION 2. The legislature validates and confirms in all 1-20 respects the following acts and proceedings of a water supply 1-21 corporation, as defined by Section 65.001, Water Code, as amended 1-22 by this Act: 1-23 (1) all acts and obligations authorized or undertaken 1-24 before the effective date of this Act and all proceedings of the 2-1 water supply corporation regarding those acts or obligations that 2-2 were completed before the effective date of this Act; and 2-3 (2) the exercise before the effective date of this Act 2-4 of any power of a water supply corporation provided by Chapter 76, 2-5 Acts of the 43rd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1933 (Article 2-6 1434a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), regardless of the population 2-7 of the county in which the water supply corporation or any of its 2-8 assets are located or in which the water supply corporation 2-9 exercised the power. 2-10 SECTION 3. Section 2 of this Act does not apply to an act, 2-11 proceeding, corporation, obligation, or exercise of power that on 2-12 the effective date of this Act is the subject of litigation pending 2-13 on that date. 2-14 SECTION 4. 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.