By: Shapleigh  S.B. No. 688
         (In the Senate - Filed February 15, 2007;
  February 28, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Intergovernmental Relations; March 19, 2007, reported adversely,
  with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 3,
  Nays 0; March 19, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 688 By:  Patrick
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the area served by certain municipal drainage utility
  systems.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subdivision (8), Section 402.044, Local
  Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
               (8)  "Service area" means the municipal boundaries and
  any other land areas outside the municipal boundaries which, as a
  result of topography or hydraulics, contribute overland flow into
  the watersheds served by the drainage system of a municipality;
  provided, however, that in no event may a service area extend
  farther than the boundaries of a municipality's current
  extraterritorial jurisdiction, nor, except as provided by Section
  402.0451, may a service area of one municipality extend into the
  boundaries of another municipality.  The service area is to be
  established in the ordinance establishing the drainage utility.  
  Provided, that no municipality shall extend a service area outside
  of its municipal boundaries except:
                     (A)  a municipality of more than 500,000 [400,000] 
  population located in one or more counties of less than 700,000 
  [600,000] population according to the 2000 [most recent] federal
  census;
                     (B)  a municipality all or part of which is
  located over or within the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone or the
  Edwards Aquifer transition zone, as designated by the Texas Natural
  Resource Conservation Commission; or
                     (C)  as provided by Section 402.0451.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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