1-1 By: Gray (Senate Sponsor - Jackson) H.B. No. 1304 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 1999; 1-3 March 30, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Natural Resources; April 16, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, 1-5 by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 16, 1999, sent to 1-6 printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Lucio 1-8 Amend H.B. 1304 in Section 2A of the bill (Engrossed Version 1-9 page 1, line 32) by adding the following subsection: 1-10 (c) This section does not authorize the District to install, 1-11 operate or maintain street lighting on right-of-way that is part of 1-12 the designated state highway system. 1-13 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-14 AN ACT 1-15 relating to the authority of the Bacliff Municipal Utility District 1-16 of Galveston County to install and assess for street lighting. 1-17 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-18 SECTION 1. Chapter 244, Acts of the 58th Legislature, 1-19 Regular Session, 1963 (Article 8280-286, Vernon's Texas Civil 1-20 Statutes), is amended by adding Section 2A to read as follows: 1-21 Sec. 2A. (a) If the actions are approved by a majority of 1-22 the voters of the District voting at an election called and held 1-23 for that purpose, the District may: 1-24 (1) install, operate, and maintain street lighting 1-25 within a public utility easement or public right-of-way inside the 1-26 District's boundaries; and 1-27 (2) assess the cost of installing, operating, and 1-28 maintaining the street lighting as an additional charge in the 1-29 monthly billings of the District's customers. 1-30 (b) The District may not use money from taxes or bonds 1-31 supported by taxes for a purpose described by this section. 1-32 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-33 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-34 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-35 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-36 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-37 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-38 * * * * *