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.
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