By Hilbert                                            H.B. No. 3802
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                                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 to a district
 1-9     located entirely in a county with a population of 2.8 million or
1-10     more.
1-11           (b)  Before a district to which Section 49.108 applies may
1-12     enter into any contract under Section 49.213 or any other law, for
1-13     a term that will exceed three years for the purpose of obtaining
1-14     surface water for use or sale within or to the district, the
1-15     district shall obtain the approval of the commission,
1-16     notwithstanding the source of funds to be used to make payments
1-17     under such proposed contract.
1-18           (c)  A proposed contract to which subsection (b) applies
1-19     shall be reviewed by the commission in the same manner as a
1-20     contract subject to Section 49.181.
1-21           (d)  If the commission approves a contract to which
 2-1     subsection (b) applies, the contract shall be subject to an
 2-2     approval election in the same manner as required by Section
 2-3     49.108(b).
 2-4           (e)  Section 49.182 applies to a contract to which subsection
 2-5     (b) applies.
 2-6           (f)  Notwithstanding any other law, the books and records of
 2-7     all parties to a contract to which subsection (b) applies shall be
 2-8     made available for inspection by the commission and by a district
 2-9     with which the party has contracted as necessary for the commission
2-10     to perform its duties under this section and for the district to
2-11     comply with Subchapter G.
2-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16     days in each be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, and
2-17     that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-18     passage, and it is so enacted.