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. _______________________________ _______________________________ 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. _______________________________ 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. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor