By Cook                                               H.B. No. 2932
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                                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.
 2-1           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-2     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-6     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-7     passage, and it is so enacted.