76R11635 SMJ-F By Solomons H.B. No. 2956 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2956: By Lewis of Orange C.S.H.B. No. 2956 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.