By:  Wentworth                                        S.B. No. 1270
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the designation of water quality protection zones in
 1-2     certain areas.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 26.179, Water Code, is
 1-5     amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (c)  This section applies only to those areas within the
 1-7     extraterritorial jurisdiction, outside the full-purpose corporate
 1-8     limits of a municipality with a population greater than 5,000, and
 1-9     in which the municipality either:
1-10                 (1)  has enacted or attempted to enforce three or more
1-11     ordinances or amendments thereto attempting to regulate water
1-12     quality or control or abate water pollution in the area within the
1-13     five years preceding the effective date of this Act, whether or not
1-14     such ordinances or amendments were legally effective upon the area;
1-15     or
1-16                 (2)  enacts or attempts to enforce three or more
1-17     ordinances or amendments thereto attempting to regulate water
1-18     quality or control or abate water pollution in the area in any
1-19     five-year period, whether or not such ordinances or amendments are
1-20     legally effective upon the area.