1-1 By: Brown S.B. No. 898
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 4, 1999; March 8, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 March 25, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; March 25, 1999,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 898 By: Brown
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to grants from the water loan assistance fund for certain
1-11 projects.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 15.102, Water Code, is
1-14 amended to read as follows:
1-15 (b) The board may use the loan fund [may also be used by the
1-16 board] to provide grants for:
1-17 (1) projects that include the provision of [supplying]
1-18 water and wastewater services in economically distressed areas,
1-19 including projects involving retail distribution of those services;
1-20 and
1-21 (2) one or more of the following projects, if the
1-22 legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose:
1-23 (A) agricultural water conservation;
1-24 (B) weather modification;
1-25 (C) brush control; or
1-26 (D) production of water in connection with an
1-27 oil or gas operation.
1-28 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-29 (b) The change in law made by this Act applies only to an
1-30 application for a grant from the water loan assistance fund that is
1-31 filed on or after the effective date of this Act. A grant
1-32 application that is filed before the effective date of this Act is
1-33 governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date
1-34 of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-35 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-36 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-37 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-38 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-39 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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