By Armbrister                                          S.B. No. 418
       74R4851 JJT-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the management of the Edwards Aquifer and the powers
    1-3  and duties of the Edwards Underground Water District.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  (a)  Section 1.41, Chapter 626, Acts of the 73rd
    1-6  Legislature, 1993, is repealed.
    1-7        (b)  Chapter 99, Acts of the 56th Legislature, Regular
    1-8  Session, 1959 (Article 8280-219, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
    1-9  not repealed by operation of Section 1.41, Chapter 626, Acts of the
   1-10  73rd Legislature, 1993, and remains in effect as if that section
   1-11  had not been passed and signed into law.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  Chapter 99, Acts of the 56th Legislature, Regular
   1-13  Session, 1959 (Article 8280-219, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
   1-14  amended by adding Section 3D to read as follows:
   1-15        Sec. 3D.  LOANS AND GRANTS.  Under the authority granted by
   1-16  Section 52-a, Article III, Texas Constitution, the district may
   1-17  loan or grant money to any person for:
   1-18              (1)  water conservation equipment or technology for
   1-19  water conservation on land used for cultivation or ranching in the
   1-20  region;
   1-21              (2)  water conservation or development projects to
   1-22  assist the growth of agriculture or economic development in the
   1-23  region; or
   1-24              (3)  education in the region to promote innovation in
    2-1  agricultural water conservation practices.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-7  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-8  passage, and it is so enacted.