85R5471 AAF-F
 
  By: Herrero H.B. No. 2593
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to franchises granted by navigation districts.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 61.164(b) and (d), Water Code, are
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  No franchise shall be granted for longer than 50 [30]
  years nor shall a franchise be granted except on the affirmative
  vote of a majority of the commissioners at three separate meetings
  of the commission which meetings may not be closer together than one
  week.  The third meeting at which the commission votes to grant a
  franchise may not take place before the date the notice required by
  Subsection (c) is published for the third time.
         (d)  The franchise shall require the grantee to file a [his
  or their] written acceptance within 30 days after the franchise is
  finally approved by the commission.  Unless the district and the
  grantee agree on a later date, the effective date of the franchise
  is the date the grantee files the written acceptance with the
  commission.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.