1-1     By:  Madla                                            S.B. No. 1890
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed April 28, 1999; April 29, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; May 3, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 3, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to voter eligibility in Maverick County Water Control and
 1-9     Improvement District No. 1.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 51, Water Code, is amended
1-12     by adding Section 51.221 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 51.221.  ELIGIBILITY TO VOTE:  MAVERICK COUNTY WATER
1-14     CONTROL AND IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 1.  (a)  In this section,
1-15     "district" means the Maverick County Water Control and Improvement
1-16     District No. 1.
1-17           (b)  A person is eligible to vote in an election conducted by
1-18     the district if the person:
1-19                 (1)  is 18 years of age or older;
1-20                 (2)  is a United States citizen;
1-21                 (3)  is an individual who holds title or an interest in
1-22     title to farmland or ranch land within the boundaries of the
1-23     district; and
1-24                 (4)  receives and uses irrigation water delivered by
1-25     the district by and through the district's canal system.
1-26           (c)  A person eligible to vote under Subsection (b) must
1-27     register with the district not later than the 30th day before a
1-28     district election in order to vote in that district election.  The
1-29     district shall file with the county clerk of Maverick County a
1-30     certified copy of the list of the district's registered voters not
1-31     later than the 25th day before each district election.
1-32           SECTION 2.  A person who on January 1, 2000, is not eligible
1-33     under Subsection (b), Section 51.221, Water Code, as added by this
1-34     Act, to vote in an election held by the Maverick County Water
1-35     Control and Improvement District No. 1 is not liable for any tax
1-36     imposed by the district on or after that date.  The person
1-37     continues to be liable for the payment of any tax imposed before
1-38     that date and for the person's pro rata share of any district debt
1-39     existing on that date.
1-40           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-41           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-42     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-43     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-44     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-45     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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