1-1     By:  Cook (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth)                H.B. No. 2932
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1999;
 1-3     April 20, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Natural Resources; May 3, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 3, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the designation of water quality protection zones in
 1-9     certain areas.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 26.179, Water Code, is
1-12     amended to read as follows:
1-13           (c)  This section applies only to those areas within the
1-14     extraterritorial jurisdiction, outside the full-purpose corporate
1-15     limits of a municipality with a population greater than 5,000, and
1-16     in which the municipality either:
1-17                 (1)  has enacted or attempted 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 within the
1-20     five years preceding the effective date of this Act, whether or not
1-21     such ordinances or amendments were legally effective upon the area;
1-22     or
1-23                 (2)  enacts or attempts to enforce three or more
1-24     ordinances or amendments thereto attempting to regulate water
1-25     quality or control or abate water pollution in the area in any
1-26     five-year period, whether or not such ordinances or amendments are
1-27     legally effective upon the area.
1-28           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-29     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-33     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-34     passage, and it is so enacted.
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