76R11384 WP-F By Hilbert H.B. No. 3802 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3802: By Counts C.S.H.B. No. 3802 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the approval of certain long-term contracts of certain 1-3 counties. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 49, Water Code, is amended 1-6 by adding Section 49.1085 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 49.1085. CONTRACT ELECTIONS IN COUNTY WITH POPULATION 1-8 GREATER THAN 2.8 MILLION. (a) This section applies only to a 1-9 district located entirely in a county with a population of 2.8 1-10 million or more. 1-11 (b) A district to which Section 49.108 applies may not enter 1-12 into any contract for a term of more than three years to obtain 1-13 surface water for use or sale in the district before: 1-14 (1) the commission has reviewed and approved the 1-15 contract in the manner provided by Section 49.181 for review and 1-16 approval of bonds; and 1-17 (2) the contract is approved in an election in the 1-18 manner provided by Sections 49.108(b) and (c). 1-19 (c) Section 49.182 applies to a contract formed under this 1-20 section. 1-21 (d) Notwithstanding any other law, each party to a contract 1-22 under this section shall make the party's books and records 1-23 available for inspection by the commission and by a district that 1-24 is a party to the contract as necessary for the commission to 2-1 perform its duties under this section and for the district to 2-2 comply with Subchapter G. 2-3 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.