1-1 By: Truan S.B. No. 630 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 22, 1999; February 23, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Special Committee on Border 1-4 Affairs; April 7, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 7, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the use by political subdivisions that receive state 1-9 financial assistance for water supply and sewer service projects in 1-10 economically distressed areas of the revenue from the operation of 1-11 those projects. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Subchapter J, Chapter 16, Water Code, is amended 1-14 by adding Section 16.352 to read as follows: 1-15 Sec. 16.352. USE OF REVENUE FROM OPERATION OF WATER SUPPLY 1-16 OR SEWER SERVICE PROJECTS. (a) A political subdivision that 1-17 receives state financial assistance for the construction of a water 1-18 supply or sewer service project under Subchapter K, Chapter 17, 1-19 that is required to be repaid shall apply to the repayment of the 1-20 financial assistance or maintenance and operation of the project an 1-21 amount not less than the revenue from the operation of the project 1-22 multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the amount of 1-23 state financial assistance received for the construction of the 1-24 project and the denominator of which is the total cost of the 1-25 construction of the project. 1-26 (b) At the request of the board or on the attorney general's 1-27 own initiative, the attorney general may file suit to enjoin an 1-28 actual or threatened violation of this section. 1-29 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-34 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-35 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-36 * * * * *