AN ACT
 1-1     relating to enforcement of the Flood Control and Insurance Act in
 1-2     certain counties.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (c),  Section 16.323, Water Code, is
 1-5     amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (c)  This section applies only to a county that:
 1-7                 (1)  contains [containing] two or more municipalities
 1-8     each of which has a population of 250,000 or more;
 1-9                 (2)  has a population of 2.8 million or more; or
1-10                 (3)  has a population of 270,000 or more and is
1-11     adjacent to two or more counties each of which has a population of
1-12     one million or more.
1-13           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-19     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 142 passed the Senate on
         March 25, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
         the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 5, 1999, by the
         following vote:  Yeas 29, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 142 passed the House, with
         amendment, on April 29, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 142,
         Nays 0, two present not voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor