1-1     By:  Brown                                            S.B. No. 1888

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 1997; March 24, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;

 1-4     April 7, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 10,

 1-5     Nays 0; April 7, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the repeal of the authority to abolish certain

 1-9     conservation and reclamation districts that become part of more

1-10     than one municipality.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Sections 43.077 and 43.078, Local Government

1-13     Code, are repealed.

1-14           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-15           (b)  The change in law made by this Act does not apply to a

1-16     conservation and reclamation district all the territory of which is

1-17     included in more than one municipality before September 1, 1997,

1-18     and the former law is continued in effect for purposes of

1-19     abolishing such a district.

1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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