By Solis of Cameron H.B. No. 2849
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Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E.
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.