1-1     By:  Barrientos                                        S.B. No. 197
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 20, 1999; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
 1-4     April 8, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 5,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 8, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the dissolution of Travis County Water Control and
 1-9     Improvement District No. 14 and the validation of certain actions
1-10     of the district's board of directors.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  DEFINITIONS.  In this Act:
1-13                 (1)  "City" means the City of Austin.
1-14                 (2)  "District" means the Travis County Water Control
1-15     and Improvement District No. 14.
1-16           SECTION 2.  LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS.  The legislature finds
1-17     that:
1-18                 (1)  on July 8, 1998, the district entered into an
1-19     agreement with the city providing for the transfer and management
1-20     of the district's water distribution system and other property,
1-21     assets, and liabilities as part of the city's water treatment and
1-22     distribution system;
1-23                 (2)  all conditions of the agreement for the transfer
1-24     of the district's water distribution system and other property,
1-25     assets, and liabilities to the city have been satisfied in all
1-26     respects;
1-27                 (3)  the district has transferred its water
1-28     distribution system and other property, assets, and liabilities to
1-29     the city and the city has assumed the responsibility for payment of
1-30     the district's bonded indebtedness and other liabilities,
1-31     obligations, and functions of the district in accordance with the
1-32     transfer agreement;
1-33                 (4)  the district has concluded its business affairs
1-34     and the district is ready to be dissolved as contemplated by the
1-35     transfer agreement; and
1-36                 (5)  there is no reason for the continued existence of
1-37     the district.
1-38           SECTION 3.  DISSOLUTION OF DISTRICT.  The district is
1-39     dissolved on the effective date of this Act.
1-40           SECTION 4.  VALIDATION.  (a)  Any action taken before January
1-41     1, 1999, by the board of directors of the district pertaining to
1-42     the transfer of the district's water distribution system and other
1-43     property, assets, and liabilities is in all respects validated as
1-44     of the date the action was taken and shall be treated as if the
1-45     action had originally been authorized and accomplished in
1-46     accordance with law.
1-47           (b)  This section does not apply to any matter that on the
1-48     effective date of this Act:
1-49                 (1)  is involved in litigation if in the course of the
1-50     litigation the matter is held invalid by a final judgment of a
1-51     court of competent jurisdiction; or
1-52                 (2)  has been held invalid by a final judgment of a
1-53     court of competent jurisdiction.
1-54           SECTION 5.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
1-55     and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-56     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-57     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-58     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-59     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-60     passage, and it is so enacted.
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