By:  Madla                                            S.B. No. 1890
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to voter eligibility in Maverick County Water Control and
 1-2     Improvement District No. 1.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 51, Water Code, is amended
 1-5     by adding Section 51.221 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 51.221.  ELIGIBILITY TO VOTE:  MAVERICK COUNTY WATER
 1-7     CONTROL AND IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 1.  (a)  In this section,
 1-8     "district" means the Maverick County Water Control and Improvement
 1-9     District No. 1.
1-10           (b)  A person is eligible to vote in an election conducted by
1-11     the district if the person:
1-12                 (1)  is 18 years of age or older;
1-13                 (2)  is a United States citizen;
1-14                 (3)  is an individual who holds title or an interest in
1-15     title to farmland or ranch land within the boundaries of the
1-16     district; and
1-17                 (4)  receives and uses irrigation water delivered by
1-18     the district by and through the district's canal system.
1-19           (c)  A person eligible to vote under Subsection (b) must
1-20     register with the district not later than the 30th day before a
1-21     district election in order to vote in that district election.  The
1-22     district shall file with the county clerk of Maverick County a
1-23     certified copy of the list of the district's registered voters not
1-24     later than the 25th day before each district election.
 2-1           SECTION 2.  A person who on January 1, 2000, is not eligible
 2-2     under Subsection (b), Section 51.221, Water Code, as added by this
 2-3     Act, to vote in an election held by the Maverick County Water
 2-4     Control and Improvement District No. 1 is not liable for any tax
 2-5     imposed by the district on or after that date.  The person
 2-6     continues to be liable for the payment of any tax imposed before
 2-7     that date and for the person's pro rata share of any district debt
 2-8     existing on that date.
 2-9           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-10           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.