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: _______________________________ Date _______________________________ Governor