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.