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. 1-35 * * * * *