By: Ellis S.B. No. 1718 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the definition of certain conservation and reclamation 1-2 districts as a water and sewer utility. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 13, Section 13.002, Subparagraph (3), 1-5 Water Code is hereby amended to read as follows: 1-6 (3) "Water and sewer utility," "public utility," or 1-7 "utility" means any person, corporation, cooperative corporation, 1-8 or any combination of these persons or entities, other than a 1-9 municipal corporation, water supply or sewer service corporation, 1-10 or a political subdivision of the state, or their lessees, 1-11 trustees, and receivers, owning or operating for compensation in 1-12 this state equipment or facilities for the transmission, storage, 1-13 distribution, sale, or provision of potable water to the public or 1-14 for the resale of potable water to the public for any use or for 1-15 the collection, transportation, treatment, or disposal of sewage or 1-16 other operation of a sewage disposal service for the public, other 1-17 than equipment or facilities owned and operated for either purpose 1-18 by a city, town, or other political subdivision of this state or a 1-19 water supply or sewer service corporation, but does not include any 1-20 person or corporation not otherwise a public utility that furnishes 1-21 the services or commodity only to itself or its employees or 2-1 tenants as an incident of that employee service or tenancy when 2-2 that service or commodity is not resold to or used by others. As 2-3 used in this paragraph, political subdivision shall not include a 2-4 conservation and reclamation district organized under Art. XVI, 2-5 Sec. 59 of the Texas Constitution with a territory of more than 2-6 10,000 acres providing household water and sewer service. 2-7 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.