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.