By Solomons                                           H.B. No. 2956
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to contracts between districts and municipalities.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 53.029, Texas Water Code is amended by
 1-5     adding subsection (e) to read as follows:
 1-6           (e)  A district covered by this section, or which has
 1-7     retained the powers set forth in this section, has the right to
 1-8     conduct contract elections in the manner set forth in Section
 1-9     49.108(a) through (d), Texas Water Code.  If the district is
1-10     located wholly or partially within the boundaries or
1-11     extraterritorial jurisdiction of one or more municipalities, and
1-12     the district obtains the approval of the contract by such
1-13     municipalities, the approval set forth in Section 49.108(e), Texas
1-14     Water Code, is not required.
1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendar in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an urgent public necessity that the constitutional
1-18     rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house
1-19     be suspended, and the rule is hereby suspended, and that this Act
1-20     take effect and be in effect from and after its passage and it is
1-21     so enacted.