1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the authority of the Bacliff Municipal Utility District
 1-3     of Galveston County to install and assess for street lighting.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 244, Acts of the 58th Legislature,
 1-6     Regular Session, 1963 (Article 8280-286, Vernon's Texas Civil
 1-7     Statutes), is amended by adding Section 2A to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 2A.  (a)  If the actions are approved by a majority of
 1-9     the voters of the District voting at an election called and held
1-10     for that purpose, the District may:
1-11                 (1)  install, operate, and maintain street lighting
1-12     within a public utility easement or public right-of-way inside the
1-13     District's boundaries; and
1-14                 (2)  assess the cost of installing, operating, and
1-15     maintaining the street lighting as an additional charge in the
1-16     monthly billings of the District's customers.
1-17           (b)  The District may not use money from taxes or bonds
1-18     supported by taxes for a purpose described by this section.
1-19           (c)  This section does not authorize the District to install,
1-20     operate, or maintain street lighting on right-of-way that is part
1-21     of the designated state highway system.
1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1304 was passed by the House on March
         25, 1999, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in
         Senate amendments to H.B. No. 1304 on April 28, 1999, by a
         non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1304 was passed by the Senate, with
         amendments, on April 26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30,
         Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor