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.