1-1     By:  Denny, Counts, Turner of Coleman, et al.         H.B. No. 1018
 1-2          (Senate Sponsor:  Sibley)
 1-3           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 8, 1999;
 1-4     April 9, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-5     Economic Development; May 11, 1999, reported favorably by the
 1-6     following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 11, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to participation of cities and counties in the National
1-10     Flood Insurance Program.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Subchapter I, Chapter 16, Water Code, is amended
1-13     by adding Section 16.3145 to read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 16.3145.  NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM ORDERS OR
1-15     ORDINANCES.  The governing body of each city and county shall adopt
1-16     ordinances or orders, as appropriate, necessary for the city or
1-17     county to be eligible to participate in the National Flood
1-18     Insurance Program.
1-19           SECTION 2.  The governing body of each city and county shall
1-20     adopt ordinances or orders, as appropriate, necessary for the city
1-21     or county to be eligible to participate in the National Flood
1-22     Insurance Program as required by Section 16.3145, Water Code, as
1-23     added by this Act, not later than January 1, 2001.
1-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-25     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-26     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-27     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-28     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-29     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-30     passage, and it is so enacted.
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