By: Hilderbran H.B. No. 1813 73R5108 MI-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of the Upper Guadalupe River Authority to 1-3 appropriate state water for recharging certain underground fresh 1-4 water bearing sands and aquifers. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 16, Chapter 5, Special Laws, Acts of the 1-7 46th Legislature, Regular Session, 1939, is amended by adding 1-8 Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-9 (c) As a necessary aid to the conservation, control, 1-10 preservation, and distribution of the water described in Subsection 1-11 (a) of this section for beneficial use, the authority shall have 1-12 the right, power, privilege, function, and authority to appropriate 1-13 state water, including the ordinary or normal flow of the Upper 1-14 Guadalupe River and its tributaries within the boundaries of the 1-15 District for the purpose of recharging underground fresh water 1-16 bearing sands and aquifers within the boundaries of the District 1-17 for subsequent retrieval for beneficial use, and to make contracts 1-18 with municipalities and other entities located in Kerr County for 1-19 the sale of that water. 1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.