1-1 By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1878 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 1997; March 24, 1997, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; April 11, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable 1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; 1-6 April 11, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1878 By: Shapiro 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to authorizing certain municipal utility districts to 1-11 repair and maintain streets and to issue bonds for that purpose. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 54, Water Code, is amended 1-14 by adding Section 54.242 to read as follows: 1-15 Sec. 54.242. STREET REPAIR OR MAINTENANCE. A district 1-16 created by general law or special act of the legislature in 1-17 existence for at least 10 years may repair or maintain a street 1-18 within the district as provided by Section 54.522. 1-19 SECTION 2. Subchapter F, Chapter 54, Water Code, is amended 1-20 by adding Section 54.522 to read as follows: 1-21 Sec. 54.522. BONDS FOR STREET REPAIR OR MAINTENANCE. 1-22 (a) The legislature finds that the condition of streets affects: 1-23 (1) the control, storage, preservation, and 1-24 distribution of the state's storm and flood waters; 1-25 (2) the control, abatement, or change of any shortage 1-26 or harmful excess of water; and 1-27 (3) a municipal utility district's ability to 1-28 accomplish its purposes. 1-29 (b) It is the policy of the state to authorize a municipal 1-30 utility district in certain circumstances to take action that is 1-31 necessary to prevent the condition of a street within the district 1-32 from adversely affecting the control, storage, preservation, and 1-33 distribution of the state's storm and flood waters, adversely 1-34 affecting the control, abatement, or change of any shortage or 1-35 harmful excess of water, or otherwise impeding a district's ability 1-36 to accomplish its purposes. 1-37 (c) A district created by general law or special act of the 1-38 legislature in existence for at least 10 years may issue bonds for 1-39 the purpose of repairing or maintaining streets within the district 1-40 if the bonds are authorized by a majority vote of the resident 1-41 electors of the district voting in an election called and held for 1-42 that purpose. 1-43 (d) An election required by this section must be held on the 1-44 uniform election date in November authorized by Section 41.001, 1-45 Election Code. Notwithstanding Section 41.003, Election Code, an 1-46 election under this section may be held on the date of the general 1-47 election for state and county officers. 1-48 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-49 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-50 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-51 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-52 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-53 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-54 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-55 * * * * *