By Denny, Counts, Turner of Coleman, et al. H.B. No. 1018 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to participation of cities and counties in the National 1-3 Flood Insurance Program. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 16, Water Code, is amended 1-6 by adding Section 16.3145 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 16.3145. NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM ORDERS OR 1-8 ORDINANCES. The governing body of each city and county shall adopt 1-9 ordinances or orders, as appropriate, necessary for the city or 1-10 county to be eligible to participate in the National Flood 1-11 Insurance Program. 1-12 SECTION 2. The governing body of each city and county shall 1-13 adopt ordinances or orders, as appropriate, necessary for the city 1-14 or county to be eligible to participate in the National Flood 1-15 Insurance Program as required by Section 16.3145, Water Code, as 1-16 added by this Act, not later than January 1, 2001. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.