Amend CSSB 2 by adding a new appropriately numbered SECTION
to read as follows:
      SECTION __. Section 4.06(a), Chapter 1029, Acts of the 76
Legislature, Regular Session, 1999, is amended to read as follows:
      (a) The authority may:
            (1) acquire and provide by purchase, gift, <or> lease,
contract, or any other legal means, a water treatment or supply
system, or any other works, plants, improvements, or facilities
necessary or convenient to accomplish the purposes of the
authority, or any interest in those assets, inside of or outside of
the authority's boundaries;
            (2) design, finance, or construct a water treatment or
supply system, or any other supply systems, or any other works,
plants, improvements, or facilities necessary or convenient to
accomplish the purposes of the authority, and provide water
services inside of or outside of the authority's boundaries;
            (3) maintain, operate, lease, or sell a water treatment
or supply system, or any other works, plants, improvements, or
facilities necessary or convenient to accomplish the purposes of
the authority, that the authority constructs or acquires inside of
or outside of the authority's boundaries; and
            (4) contract with any person to operate or maintain a
water treatment or supply system the person owns.