By Green H.B. No. 3400 76R6800 JJT-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of certain municipalities to regulate in 1-3 their extraterritorial jurisdictions nonpoint source water 1-4 pollution. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 26, Water Code, is amended 1-7 by adding Section 26.181 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 26.181. LIMITATION ON WATER POLLUTION CONTROL AUTHORITY 1-9 OF CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. Notwithstanding any other law, a 1-10 municipality that has any part of its extraterritorial jurisdiction 1-11 in a county that has within its boundaries at least one groundwater 1-12 conservation district and that is not the county in which the 1-13 majority of the territory inside the municipality's corporate 1-14 boundaries is located may not enforce a water pollution control and 1-15 abatement program or regulate or control nonpoint source water 1-16 pollution in any part of the municipality's extraterritorial 1-17 jurisdiction that is located in that county unless the municipality 1-18 has the written consent of: 1-19 (1) the county; and 1-20 (2) the groundwater conservation districts in that 1-21 county. 1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.