By Lewis of Orange H.B. No. 1755 76R5324 CAG-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the requirements for the creation of a political 1-3 subdivision to supply water or sewer services, roadways, or 1-4 drainage facilities in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a 1-5 municipality. 1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-7 SECTION 1. Section 42.042(j), Local Government Code, is 1-8 amended to read as follows: 1-9 (j) The consent requirements of this section do not apply to 1-10 the creation of a special utility district under Chapter 65, Water 1-11 Code, or the creation of a political subdivision by an act of the 1-12 legislature. If a special utility district is to be converted to a 1-13 district with taxing authority that provides utility services, this 1-14 section applies to the conversion. 1-15 SECTION 2. Any governmental act or proceeding related to the 1-16 adoption of an act of the legislature creating a special district 1-17 under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, since the 1-18 adoption of Subsection (e) of that section is validated as of the 1-19 date on which it occurred. 1-20 SECTION 3. (a) The purpose of this Act is to clarify and 1-21 confirm that the general law of the state since the adoption of 1-22 Section 59(e), Article XVI, Texas Constitution, has been not to 1-23 require the consent of any municipality for the legislative 1-24 adoption of an act creating a district under Section 59, Article 2-1 XVI, Texas Constitution, and that this interpretation is adopted 2-2 and declared to have been the interpretation of the general law of 2-3 the state since the adoption of Subsection (e) of that section. 2-4 (b) This Act does not nullify or amend any other act of the 2-5 legislature or any order of the Texas Natural Resource Conservation 2-6 Commission relating to any district created under Section 59, 2-7 Article XVI, Texas Constitution, since the adoption of Subsection 2-8 (e) of that section. 2-9 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-10 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the 2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.