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.