By Green                                              H.B. No. 3400
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                                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.