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.