By: Lucio S.B. No. 1047
(In the Senate - Filed February 20, 2009; March 13, 2009,
read first time and referred to Committee on International
Relations and Trade; March 25, 2009, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 25, 2009, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the procurement methods authorized for public projects
by a combined municipally owned electric, water, and wastewater
utility situated in an economically distressed area within 30 miles
of the Lower Texas Gulf Coast.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 271.182, Local Government Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) This subchapter applies to a municipally owned combined
electric, water, and wastewater utility situated in an economically
distressed area and located within 30 miles of the Lower Texas Gulf
Coast. For this subchapter, "combined" means that the utilities
are managed and controlled by one board whose members are appointed
by the governing body of the municipality and that the financing of
capital improvements is secured from the revenues of all three
utilities.
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, 2009.
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