By: Brown S.B. No. 898
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to grants from the water loan assistance fund for certain
1-2 projects.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 15.102, Water Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) The board may use the loan fund [may also be used by the
1-7 board] to provide grants for:
1-8 (1) projects that include the provision of [supplying]
1-9 water and wastewater services in economically distressed areas,
1-10 including projects involving retail distribution of those services;
1-11 and
1-12 (2) one or more of the following projects, if the
1-13 legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose:
1-14 (A) agricultural water conservation;
1-15 (B) weather modification;
1-16 (C) brush control; or
1-17 (D) production of water in connection with an
1-18 oil or gas operation.
1-19 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-20 (b) The change in law made by this Act applies only to an
1-21 application for a grant from the water loan assistance fund that is
1-22 filed on or after the effective date of this Act. A grant
1-23 application that is filed before the effective date of this Act is
1-24 governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date
2-1 of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.