1-1 By: Turner, Wentworth S.B. No. 988
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1993; March 15, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 April 23, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 23, 1993,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Sims x
1-10 Truan x
1-11 Armbrister x
1-12 Barrientos x
1-13 Bivins x
1-14 Brown x
1-15 Carriker x
1-16 Lucio x
1-17 Montford x
1-18 Ratliff x
1-19 Shelley x
1-20 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 988 By: Sims
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to extension beyond a municipality's boundaries of certain
1-24 municipal regulations to protect water quality.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 212, Local Government Code,
1-27 is amended by adding Section 212.0031 to read as follows:
1-28 Sec. 212.0031. EXTENSION OF RULES TO PROTECT WATER QUALITY
1-29 OF AQUIFER RECHARGE ZONE. (a) This section applies only to a
1-30 municipality:
1-31 (1) with a population of less than 30,000; and
1-32 (2) all or part of which is located over the northern
1-33 Edwards Aquifer recharge zone, as designated by the Texas Water
1-34 Commission and which is an area of interest to the entire state.
1-35 (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter,
1-36 the governing body of a municipality to which this section applies
1-37 may extend the application of any municipal ordinance adopted under
1-38 Section 212.002 to an area within the municipality's
1-39 extraterritorial jurisdiction as necessary to protect the water
1-40 quality of the aquifer.
1-41 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-42 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-43 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-44 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-45 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-46 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-47 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-48 * * * * *
1-49 Austin,
1-50 Texas
1-51 April 23, 1993
1-52 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-53 President of the Senate
1-54 Sir:
1-55 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred S.B.
1-56 No. 988, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-57 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-58 not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof
1-59 do pass and be printed.
1-60 Sims,
1-61 Chairman
1-62 * * * * *
1-63 WITNESSES
1-64 FOR AGAINST ON
1-65 ___________________________________________________________________
1-66 Name: Bob Hart x
1-67 Representing: City of Georgetown
1-68 City: Georgetown
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2-2 Name: Karen Stearns x
2-3 Representing: Georgetown Chamber
2-4 City: Georgetown
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2-6 Name: Bruce Barton x
2-7 Representing: G'town Industrial Foundation
2-8 City: Georgetown
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