By Hupp H.B. No. 1717
76R5225 WP-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the name of the Fox Crossing Water District.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 779, Acts of the 69th Legislature,
1-5 Regular Session, 1985, is amended by adding Section 1a to read as
1-6 follows:
1-7 Sec. 1a. NAME CHANGE. A reference in law to the Fox
1-8 Crossing Water District means the Mills County Water District.
1-9 SECTION 2. Section 2(1), Chapter 779, Acts of the 69th
1-10 Legislature, Regular Session, 1985, is amended to read as follows:
1-11 (1) "District" means the Mills County Water District
1-12 [Fox Crossing Water District].
1-13 SECTION 3. Section 6(c), Chapter 779, Acts of the 69th
1-14 Legislature, Regular Session, 1985, is amended to read as follows:
1-15 (c) To exclude a county from the district by approval of the
1-16 qualified voters, a petition must be submitted to the commissioners
1-17 court of that county requesting that an election be called and held
1-18 within the county to vote on the proposition whether to exclude the
1-19 county from the district. The petition must be signed by at least
1-20 10 percent of the qualified voters of the county as shown by the
1-21 most recent voter registration rolls of the county. Not later than
1-22 the 60th day after the commissioners court receives a petition
1-23 under this section, it shall call and hold an election to determine
1-24 whether the county should be excluded from the district. Ballots
2-1 for the election shall be printed to provide for voting for or
2-2 against the proposition: "The exclusion of (Name of County) from
2-3 the Mills County Water District [Fox Crossing Water District]." A
2-4 general law requiring elections to be held on uniform or specified
2-5 election dates does not apply to an election ordered under this
2-6 subsection. Except as specifically provided by this section, an
2-7 election to exclude a county from the district is governed by
2-8 Section 5 of this Act as if it were a confirmation election and the
2-9 Texas Election Code.
2-10 SECTION 4. Section 77(f), Chapter 779, Acts of the 69th
2-11 Legislature, Regular Session, 1985, is amended to read as follows:
2-12 (f) At an election called under Subsection (e) of this
2-13 section, the ballots shall be printed to provide for voting for or
2-14 against the proposition: "The annexation of (Name of county to be
2-15 annexed) to the Mills County Water District [Fox Crossing Water
2-16 District], and assumption by the county of a proportionate share of
2-17 any taxes and indebtedness of the district." If a majority of the
2-18 qualified voters of the district and a majority of the qualified
2-19 voters of the county proposed to be annexed voting at the election
2-20 vote for annexation of the county to the district, the county on
2-21 the date of the confirmation election is annexed to the district.
2-22 If a majority of the qualified voters of the district or a majority
2-23 of the qualified voters of the county proposed to be annexed voting
2-24 at the election vote against the annexation of the county to the
2-25 district, the county is not annexed to the district. Except as
2-26 specifically provided by this section, the confirmation election
2-27 shall be called and held in the manner provided by Section 5 of
3-1 this Act for the confirmation election creating the district.
3-2 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
3-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-8 passage, and it is so enacted.