1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the single certification of a water or sewer utility in
 1-3     an area incorporated or annexed by a municipality.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 13.255(j), Water Code, is amended to read
 1-6     as follows:
 1-7           (j)  This section shall apply only in a case where:
 1-8                 (1)  the retail public utility that is authorized to
 1-9     serve in the certificated area that is annexed or incorporated by
1-10     the municipality is a nonprofit water supply or sewer service
1-11     corporation, [or] a special utility district under Chapter 65,
1-12     Water Code, or a fresh water supply district under Chapter 53,
1-13     Water Code; or
1-14                 (2)  the retail public utility that is authorized to
1-15     serve in the certificated area that is annexed or incorporated by
1-16     the municipality is a retail public utility, other than a nonprofit
1-17     water supply or sewer service corporation, and whose service area
1-18     is located entirely within the boundaries of a municipality with a
1-19     population of 1.7 million or more according to the most recent
1-20     federal census.
1-21           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-2     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-3     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1291 was passed by the House on May
         11, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 148, Nays 0, 2 present, not
         voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
         H.B. No. 1291 on May 26, 1999, and requested the appointment of a
         conference committee to consider the differences between the two
         houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
         on H.B. No. 1291 on May 29, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1291 was passed by the Senate, with
         amendments, on May 24, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 29, Nays
         1; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
         committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
         that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
         1291 on May 30, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor