Amend CSSB 1335 as follows: Add a new CHAPTER 49.457 as follows: CHAPTER 49.457. REVENUE BONDS OF SURFACE WATER AUTHORITIES. Sec. 457.001. REVENUE BONDS. (a) As used in this Section: (1) 'Person' means any individual, partnership, corporation, public utility, or other private entity or any public agency. (2) 'Public agency' means any authority, district, city, town, or other political subdivision, joint board, or other public agency created pursuant to and operating under the laws of the State. (b) An authority and all persons are authorized to contract with each other in any manner and on terms as to which the parties may agree with respect to any power, function, facilities, or services which an authority is authorized by law to provide or finance. All public agencies are authorized to use and pledge any available revenues for and in the payment of amounts due under the contracts as an additional source or sources of payment of the contracts or as the sole source or sources of payment of the contracts and may covenant with respect to available revenues so as to assure the availability of these revenues when required. The term 'revenues' as used in this subsection does not mean or include revenues from ad valorem taxes levied and collected by a public agency or the proceeds from the sale or refunding of bonds of a public agency that are to be wholly or partially paid from ad valorem taxes levied and collected by the public agency unless the use or pledge of the tax revenues or bond proceeds are approved by the qualified voters of the public agency at an election called for the purpose of levying taxes or issuing or refunding bonds or both for the purpose of using or pledging their revenues or proceeds under contracts entered into under this subsection. (c) Each public agency is authorized to fix, charge, and collect fees, rates, charges, rentals, and other amounts for any services or facilities provided by any utility operated by it or provided pursuant to or in connection with any contract with an authority from its inhabitants or from any users or beneficiaries of any utility, services, or facilities, including specifically water charges, sewage charges, solid waste disposal system fees and charges, including garbage collection or handling fees, and other fees or charges and to use and pledge same to make payments to an authority required under the contract and may covenant to do so in amounts sufficient to make all or any part of the payments to an authority when due. The payments shall, if the parties agree in the contract, constitute an expense of operation of any facilities or utility operated by the public agency. (d) An authority, acting through its governing body, is authorized to undertake and carry out any activities and to acquire, purchase, construct, own, operate, maintain, repair, improve, or extend and to lease or sell on terms and conditions, including rentals or sale prices, on which the parties may agree any and all works, improvements, facilities, plants, buildings, structures, equipment, and appliances and all real and personal property or any interest in real or personal property related thereto that are incident to or necessary in carrying out or performing any power or function of an authority under this section. (e) A public agency is authorized to sell any utility owned by such public agency directly to an authority on such terms, and at such price, as the public agency and the authority may agree upon. Notwithstanding any law or home rule charter provision to the contrary, a public agency may sell any utility to an authority without either an election or competitive bidding with respect thereto. (f) An authority is authorized to issue bonds with respect to the acquisition, purchase, construction, maintenance, repair, improvement, and extension of works, improvements, facilities, plants, buildings, structures, appliances, and property for the purpose of exercising any of its powers and functions under this section in the manner provided by this Section or any other applicable law. An authority is further authorized to issue revenue bonds to pay for the costs of feasibility studies for proposed projects of an authority, including engineering, planning and design, and environmental studies. An authority is authorized to include in any revenue bond issue the funds to operate and maintain for a period not to exceed two years after completion of the facilities acquired or constructed through the revenue bond issue. If any bonds issued by an authority recite that they are secured by a pledge of payments under any contract, a copy of the contract and the proceedings relating to the contract may be submitted to the attorney general along with the bonds, and if the attorney general finds that the bonds have been authorized and the contract or contracts has or have been made and entered into in accordance with law, then he shall approve the bonds and the contract or contracts, and after the approval, the bonds and the contract or contracts shall be incontestable in any court or other forum for any reason and shall be valid and binding in accordance with its or their terms and provisions for all purposes. The provisions of Chapter 618, Government Code, as amended, Chapter 1201, Government Code, as amended, Chapter 1204, Government Code, as amended, Chapter 1207, Government Code, as amended, and Chapter 1371, Government Code, as amended, are applicable to bonds issued by an authority. (g) This Section is wholly sufficient authority within itself for the issuance of the bonds, the execution of contracts, and the performance of the other acts and procedures authorized in this Section by an authority and all persons, including specifically public agencies, without reference to any other provisions of law or any restrictions or limitations contained therein, except as in this Section specifically provided; and in any case, to the extent of any conflict or inconsistency between any provisions of this Section and any other provisions of law, including any home-rule city charter, this Section shall prevail and control; provided, however, that an authority and all persons, including specifically public agencies, shall have the right to use any other provisions of law not in conflict with the provisions of this Section to the extent convenient or necessary to carry out any power or authority, express or implied, granted by this Section.