By: Ratliff S.B. No. 1862 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the state participation program of the Texas Water 1-2 Development Board. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 16, Water Code, is amended 1-5 by adding Section 16.142 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 16.142. RECOVERY OF ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS. (a) The 1-7 board may charge an administrative fee to a political subdivision 1-8 with which the board agrees to participate in a project under this 1-9 subchapter. 1-10 (b) The board by rule shall set the fee at an amount it 1-11 considers necessary to recover the costs incurred or to be incurred 1-12 by the board in administering the project over its life, including 1-13 the costs of processing an application, monitoring construction, 1-14 and auditing and monitoring the project. 1-15 (c) The board may require the payment of the fee in one or 1-16 more payments. 1-17 (d) Fees shall be deposited as directed by the board for use 1-18 in administering the program. 1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.