AN ACT

 1-1     relating to validating the creation and certain actions of the

 1-2     Comal County Fresh Water Supply District No. 1.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  DEFINITION.  In this Act, "district" means the

 1-5     Comal County Fresh Water Supply District No. 1.

 1-6           SECTION 2.  CREATION OF DISTRICT CONFIRMED.  The creation of

 1-7     the district is confirmed and validated in all respects.

 1-8           SECTION 3.  LEGISLATIVE DECLARATION.  The legislature

 1-9     declares that:

1-10                 (1)  the district validly exists and operates under

1-11     Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution;

1-12                 (2)  all land and other property in the district are

1-13     benefited by the district and the facilities and improvements to be

1-14     constructed or acquired by the district;

1-15                 (3)  the district is essential to accomplish the

1-16     purposes of Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution; and

1-17                 (4)  the district is a governmental agency and body

1-18     politic.

1-19           SECTION 4.  VALIDATION OF ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS.  (a)  The

1-20     legislature validates and confirms:

1-21                 (1)  the boundaries of the district as provided by

1-22     order of the district's board of supervisors adopted on June 27,

1-23     1996;

 2-1                 (2)  the election held in the district on May 6, 1995,

 2-2     including all proceedings related to the election; and

 2-3                 (3)  all district bonds issued or authorized before the

 2-4     effective date of this Act and all proceedings related to their

 2-5     issuance or authorization.

 2-6           (b)  All governmental acts and proceedings of the district

 2-7     not excepted in this Act taken before May 20, 1997, are validated

 2-8     as of the dates on which they occurred.

 2-9           (c)  This Act does not validate any governmental acts or

2-10     proceedings which were void or which, under the statutes of this

2-11     state at the time the actions or proceedings occurred, were a

2-12     misdemeanor or felony.

2-13           SECTION 5.  APPLICABILITY.  This Act does not apply to a

2-14     person who is the subject of litigation pending on the effective

2-15     date of this Act or to any matter the validity of which is the

2-16     subject of litigation pending on the effective date of this Act.

2-17           SECTION 6.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation

2-18     and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-23     passage, and it is so enacted.

         _______________________________     _______________________________

             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1943 passed the Senate on

         May 19, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that the

         Senate concurred in House amendment on May 29, 1997, by a viva-voce

         vote.

                                             _______________________________

                                                 Secretary of the Senate

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1943 passed the House, with

         amendment, on May 28, 1997, by a non-record vote.

                                             _______________________________

                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

         Approved:

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                     Date

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                   Governor