76R9837 DRH-F By Clark, Brown of Brazos H.B. No. 1463 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1463: By Krusee C.S.H.B. No. 1463 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the provision of water or sewer service by a 1-3 municipality outside the territory of the municipality. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 402.001, Local Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-7 (e) The provision of water or sewer service by a 1-8 municipality to a person outside the boundaries of the municipality 1-9 does not entitle another person outside the boundaries of the 1-10 municipality to receive water or sewer service from the 1-11 municipality. This subsection does not affect the municipality's 1-12 obligation to provide water under a certificate issued under 1-13 Subchapter G, Chapter 13, Water Code, or authorize the municipality 1-14 to provide service to an area over which another provider holds a 1-15 certificate to provide service under that subchapter. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.