By Lucio S.B. No. 1612
76R8964 WP-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the authority of the Texas Natural Resource
1-3 Conservation Commission over issuance of district bonds.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 49.181(h), Water Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (h) This section does not apply to a district if:
1-8 (1) the district's boundaries include one entire
1-9 county;
1-10 (2) the district was created by a special Act of the
1-11 legislature and:
1-12 (A) the district is located entirely within one
1-13 county;
1-14 (B) entirely within one or more home-rule
1-15 municipalities;
1-16 (C) the total taxable value of the real property
1-17 and improvements to the real property zoned by one or more
1-18 home-rule municipalities for residential purposes and located
1-19 within the district does not exceed 25 percent of the total taxable
1-20 value of all taxable property in the district, as shown by the most
1-21 recent certified appraisal tax roll prepared by the appraisal
1-22 district for the county; and
1-23 (D) the district was not required by law to
1-24 obtain commission approval of its bonds before the effective date
2-1 of this section;
2-2 (3) the district is a special water authority; [or]
2-3 (4) the district is governed by a board of directors
2-4 appointed in whole or in part by the governor, a state agency, or
2-5 the governing body or chief elected official of a municipality or
2-6 county and does not provide, or propose to provide, water, sewer,
2-7 drainage, reclamation, or flood control services to residential
2-8 retail or commercial customers as its principal function; or
2-9 (5) the district:
2-10 (A) is located entirely in a county that borders
2-11 Mexico; and
2-12 (B) provides the domestic water supply and sewer
2-13 service for:
2-14 (i) three or more municipalities; and
2-15 (ii) more than 5,000 people.
2-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.