By Denny, Counts, Turner of Coleman                   H.B. No. 1018
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                                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
 1-9     adopt ordinances or orders, as appropriate, necessary for the city
1-10     or 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.