1-1     By:  Wentworth                                        S.B. No. 1879

 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. 1879                 By:  Shapiro

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to the powers of the Lower Colorado River Authority to

1-11     provide water services in Williamson County.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  The Lower Colorado River Authority Act, Chapter

1-14     7, Acts of the 43rd Legislature, 4th Called Session, 1934 (Article

1-15     8280-107, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding

1-16     Section 27 to read as follows:

1-17           Sec. 27.  (a)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this

1-18     Act, the district may purchase, construct, acquire, own, operate,

1-19     repair, improve, or extend any facility necessary or convenient to

1-20     provide water services in Williamson County in cooperation with

1-21     another special district, a municipality, or another governmental

1-22     entity.

1-23           (b)  The district may not provide water services in the

1-24     watershed of the Brazos River unless the district obtains in

1-25     writing the consent of the Brazos River Authority before the

1-26     services are provided.

1-27           (c)  The district may transfer surface water from the

1-28     district to a place in Williamson County that is outside the

1-29     watershed of the Colorado River only if the transfer is made to a

1-30     municipality that is:

1-31                 (1)  a district water customer on the effective date of

1-32     this section; and

1-33                 (2)  located in the watersheds of both the Colorado

1-34     River and the Brazos River.

1-35           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-36     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-37     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-38     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-39     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-40     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-41     passage, and it is so enacted.

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