By Cook H.B. No. 2932 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the designation of water quality protection zones in 1-3 certain areas. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 26.179, Water Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (c) This section applies only to those areas within the 1-8 extraterritorial jurisdiction, outside the full-purpose corporate 1-9 limits of a municipality with a population greater than 5,000, and 1-10 in which the municipality either: 1-11 (1) has enacted or attempted to enforce three or more 1-12 ordinances or amendments thereto attempting to regulate water 1-13 quality or control or abate water pollution in the area within the 1-14 five years preceding the effective date of this Act, whether or not 1-15 such ordinances or amendments were legally effective upon the area; 1-16 or 1-17 (2) enacts or attempts to enforce three or more 1-18 ordinances or amendments thereto attempting to regulate water 1-19 quality or control or abate water pollution in the area in any 1-20 five-year period, whether or not such ordinances or amendments are 1-21 legally effective upon the area. 1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.