1-1     By:  Armbrister                                        S.B. No. 938
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 5, 1999; March 8, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
 1-4     April 6, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 6, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the authority of certain municipalities to regulate in
 1-9     their extraterritorial jurisdictions nonpoint source water
1-10     pollution.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 26, Water Code, is amended
1-13     by adding Section 26.181 to read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 26.181.  LIMITATION ON WATER POLLUTION CONTROL AUTHORITY
1-15     OF CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES.  Notwithstanding any other law, a
1-16     municipality that has any part of its extraterritorial jurisdiction
1-17     in a county that has within its boundaries at least one groundwater
1-18     conservation district and that is not the county in which the
1-19     majority of the territory inside the municipality's corporate
1-20     boundaries is located may not enforce a water pollution control and
1-21     abatement program or regulate or control nonpoint source water
1-22     pollution in any part of the municipality's extraterritorial
1-23     jurisdiction that is located in that county unless the municipality
1-24     has the written consent of:
1-25                 (1)  the county; and
1-26                 (2)  the groundwater conservation districts in that
1-27     county.
1-28           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-29           SECTION 3.  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.
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