By Cain S.B. No. 1187 75R8957 CAG-D By ___________________ __B. No. _____ 1-1 Substitute the following for __B. No. _____: 1-2 By ___________________ C.S.__B. No. _____ 1-3 AN ACT 1-4 relating to a municipal drainage utility system. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 402.044(1), Local Government Code, is 1-7 amended to read as follows: 1-8 (1)(A) "Benefitted property" means an improved lot or 1-9 tract to which drainage service is made available under this 1-10 subchapter. 1-11 (B) "Benefitted property," in a municipality 1-12 with a population of more than 1,000,000 which is operating a 1-13 drainage utility system under this chapter, means a lot or tract, 1-14 but does not include land appraised for agricultural use, to which 1-15 drainage service is made available under this subchapter and which 1-16 discharges into a creek, river, slough, culvert, or other channel 1-17 that is part of the municipality's drainage utility system. 1-18 Sections 402.053(c)(2) and (c)(3) do not apply to a municipality 1-19 described in this subdivision. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.