By Lucio S.B. No. 1298 77R8306 SGA-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the duties and powers of the Southmost Regional Water 1-3 Authority. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 511, Acts of the 67th Legislature, Regular 1-6 Session, 1981, is amended by adding Section 18A to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 18A. (a) The authority has all of the rights, powers, 1-8 privileges, authority, functions, and duties provided by Subchapter 1-9 D, Chapter 36, Water Code, within the boundaries of the authority 1-10 and, except as provided by Subsection (b), within the territory 1-11 that is not within the authority's boundaries and that is located 1-12 in that portion of Cameron County that is south of the southern 1-13 right-of-way for U.S. Highway 77/83 and Texas Highway 100, this 1-14 territory being described as follows: 1-15 beginning at the intersection of southern right-of-way for U.S. 1-16 Highway 83 and the boundary between Cameron and Hidalgo counties, 1-17 then in an easterly and southerly direction along the southern 1-18 right-of-way for U.S. Highway 83 and then U.S. Highway 77/83 to the 1-19 intersection of U.S. Highway 77/83 and Texas Highway 100, then east 1-20 following the southern right-of-way for Highway 100 to the 1-21 intersection with the Laguna Madre, then south following the 1-22 eastern shore of the Laguna Madre, South Bay, and the Gulf of 1-23 Mexico to the intersection with the boundary of Cameron County, 1-24 then following the boundary line of Cameron County along the Rio 2-1 Grande River in a westerly and northerly direction to the Cameron 2-2 and Hidalgo County line, thence in a northerly direction along 2-3 county line to the point of beginning. 2-4 (b) The territory within the corporate limits and 2-5 extraterritorial jurisdiction for subdivision plat approval of any 2-6 municipality that is not a member of the authority is excluded from 2-7 territory in which the authority may exercise its powers under this 2-8 section unless that territory is within the boundaries of the 2-9 authority. 2-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 2-11 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 2-12 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this 2-13 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 2-14 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.