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.