By Brown S.B. No. 898
76R8139 SMJ-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to grants from the water loan assistance fund for certain
1-3 projects.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 15.102(b), Water Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (b) The board may use the loan fund [may also be used by the
1-8 board] to provide grants for:
1-9 (1) projects that include the provision of [supplying]
1-10 water and wastewater services in economically distressed areas,
1-11 including projects involving retail distribution of those services;
1-12 and
1-13 (2) one or more of the following projects, if the
1-14 legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose:
1-15 (A) agricultural water conservation;
1-16 (B) weather modification; or
1-17 (C) brush control.
1-18 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-19 (b) The change in law made by this Act applies only to an
1-20 application for a grant from the water loan assistance fund that is
1-21 filed on or after the effective date of this Act. A grant
1-22 application that is filed before the effective date of this Act is
1-23 governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date
1-24 of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.