By Truan                                               S.B. No. 630
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the use by political subdivisions that receive state
 1-3     financial assistance for water supply and sewer service projects in
 1-4     economically distressed areas of the revenue from the operation of
 1-5     those projects.
 1-6           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-7           SECTION 1.  Subchapter J, Chapter 16, Water Code, is amended
 1-8     by adding Section 16.352 to read as follows:
 1-9           Sec. 16.352.  USE OF REVENUE FROM OPERATION OF WATER SUPPLY
1-10     OR SEWER SERVICE PROJECTS.  (a)  A political subdivision that
1-11     receives state financial assistance  for the construction of a
1-12     water supply or sewer service project under Subchapter K, Chapter
1-13     17, that is required to be repaid shall apply to the repayment of
1-14     the financial assistance or maintenance and operation of the
1-15     project an amount not less than the revenue from the operation of
1-16     the project multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the
1-17     amount of state financial assistance received for the construction
1-18     of the project and the denominator of which is the total cost of
1-19     the construction of the project.
1-20           (b)  At the request of the board or on the attorney general's
1-21     own initiative, the attorney general may file suit to enjoin an
1-22     actual or threatened violation of this section.
1-23           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-4     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-5     passage, and it is so enacted.