By Solomons                                           H.B. No. 2956
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the authority of certain fresh water supply districts
 1-3     to conduct contract elections.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 53.029, Water Code, is amended by adding
 1-6     Subsection (e) to read as follows:
 1-7           (e)  A district covered by this section has the right to
 1-8     conduct contract elections in the manner set forth in Sections
 1-9     49.108(a) through (d), without the approval required by Section
1-10     49.108(e), if:
1-11                 (1)  all land that would be subject to the contract
1-12     election was in the boundaries of a district covered by this
1-13     section that was a party to an agreement with a municipality before
1-14     September 1, 1997, calling for the issuance of district bonds for
1-15     road or bridge improvements; and
1-16                 (2)  the contract is approved by the municipality that
1-17     is a party to the agreement.
1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.