1-1     By:  Ratliff                                          S.B. No. 1862
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed April 13, 1999; April 14, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Finance; April 19, 1999,
 1-4     reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0;
 1-5     April 19, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the state participation program of the Texas Water
 1-9     Development Board.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 16, Water Code, is amended
1-12     by adding Section 16.142 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 16.142.  RECOVERY OF ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.  (a)  The
1-14     board may charge an administrative fee to a political subdivision
1-15     with which the board agrees to participate in a project under this
1-16     subchapter.
1-17           (b)  The board by rule shall set the fee at an amount it
1-18     considers necessary to recover the costs incurred or to be incurred
1-19     by the board in administering the project over its life, including
1-20     the costs of processing an application, monitoring construction,
1-21     and auditing and monitoring the project.
1-22           (c)  The board may require the payment of the fee in one or
1-23     more payments.
1-24           (d)  Fees shall be deposited as directed by the board for use
1-25     in administering the program.
1-26           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-27           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-28     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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