By Solis of Cameron                                   H.B. No. 2849
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the authority of the Texas Natural Resource
 1-3     Conservation Commission over issuance of district bonds.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Title 4, Chapter 49, Subchapter F, Section
 1-6     49.181(h), Water Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (h)  This section does not apply to a district if:
 1-8                 (1)  the district's boundaries include one entire
 1-9     county;
1-10                 (2)  the district was creates by a special Act of the
1-11     legislature and:
1-12                       (A)  the district is located entirely within one
1-13     county;
1-14                       (B)  entirely within one or more home-rule
1-15     municipalities;
1-16                       (C)  the total taxable value of the real property
1-17     and improvements to the real property Zoned by one or more
1-18     home-rule municipalities for residential purposes and located
1-19     within the district does not exceed 25 percent of the total taxable
1-20     value of all taxable property in the district, as shown by the more
1-21     recent certified appraisal tax roll prepared by the appraisal
 2-1     district for the county; and
 2-2                       (D)  the district was not required by law to
 2-3     obtain commission approval of its bonds before the effective date
 2-4     of this section;
 2-5                 (3)  the district is a special water authority; [or]
 2-6                 (4)  the district is governed by a board of directors
 2-7     appointed in whole or in part by the governor, a state agency, or
 2-8     the governing body or chief elected official of a municipality or
 2-9     county and does not provide, or propose to provide water, sewer,
2-10     drainage, reclamation, or flood control services to residential
2-11     retail or commercial customers as its principal function; or
2-12                 (5)  the district:
2-13                       (A)  is located entirely within a county that
2-14     borders Mexico; and
2-15                       (B)  provides the domestic water supply and sewer
2-16     service for three or more municipalities and to a population excess
2-17     of 5,000 according to the most recent decennial census.
2-18           SECTION 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect September
2-19     1, 1999.
2-20           SECTION 3.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
2-21     and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.