1-1     By:  Brimer (Senate Sponsor - Harris)                 H.B. No. 1291
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999;
 1-3     May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
 1-4     Resources; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the single certification of a water or sewer utility in
 1-9     an area incorporated or annexed by a municipality.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 13.255(j), Water Code, is amended to read
1-12     as follows:
1-13           (j)  This section shall apply only in a case where:
1-14                 (1)  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 nonprofit water supply or sewer service
1-17     corporation, [or] a special utility district under Chapter 65,
1-18     Water Code, or a fresh water supply district under Chapter 53,
1-19     Water Code; or
1-20                 (2)  the retail public utility that is authorized to
1-21     serve in the certificated area that is annexed or incorporated by
1-22     the municipality is a retail public utility, other than a nonprofit
1-23     water supply or sewer service corporation, and whose service area
1-24     is located entirely within the boundaries of a municipality with a
1-25     population of 1.7 million or more according to the most recent
1-26     federal census.
1-27           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-28     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-32     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-33     passage, and it is so enacted.
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