By:  Puente                                           H.B. No. 1781
       73R5033 MI-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the authority of the San Antonio River Authority to set
    1-3  base flow requirements for certain watercourses.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 276, Acts of the 45th Legislature,
    1-6  Regular Session, 1937, is amended by adding Section 3A to read as
    1-7  follows:
    1-8        Sec. 3A.  SPECIFIC ADDITIONAL POWERS RELATING TO BASE FLOW
    1-9  STANDARDS OF CERTAIN TRIBUTARIES OF THE SAN ANTONIO RIVER.  The
   1-10  district may set and enforce standards for the base outflow of
   1-11  Salado Creek, a tributary of the San Antonio River.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-17  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-18  passage, and it is so enacted.