By Gray                                               H.B. No. 1303
         76R4459 WP-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the authority of the San Leon Municipal Utility
 1-3     District of Galveston County to install and assess for street
 1-4     lighting.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Chapter 520, Acts of the 59th Legislature,
 1-7     Regular Session, 1965 (Article 8280-308, Vernon's Texas Civil
 1-8     Statutes), is amended by adding Section 2A to read as follows:
 1-9           Sec. 2A.  (a)  If the actions are approved by a majority of
1-10     the voters of the District voting at an election called and held
1-11     for that purpose, the District may:
1-12                 (1)  install, operate, and maintain street lighting
1-13     within a public utility easement or public right-of-way inside the
1-14     District's boundaries; and
1-15                 (2)  assess the cost of installing, operating, and
1-16     maintaining the street lighting as an additional charge in the
1-17     monthly billings of the District's customers.
1-18           (b)  The District may not use money from taxes or bonds
1-19     supported by taxes for a purpose described by this section.
1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-21           SECTION 3.  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.