1-1  By:  Armbrister                                        S.B. No. 418
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 1, 1995; February 6, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
    1-4  February 14, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas
    1-5  7, Nays 0; February 14, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the management of the Edwards Aquifer and the powers
    1-9  and duties of the Edwards Underground Water District.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  (a)  Section 1.41, Chapter 626, Acts of the 73rd
   1-12  Legislature, 1993, is repealed.
   1-13        (b)  Chapter 99, Acts of the 56th Legislature, Regular
   1-14  Session, 1959 (Article 8280-219, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
   1-15  not repealed by operation of Section 1.41, Chapter 626, Acts of the
   1-16  73rd Legislature, 1993, and remains in effect as if that section
   1-17  had not been passed and signed into law.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  Chapter 99, Acts of the 56th Legislature, Regular
   1-19  Session, 1959 (Article 8280-219, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
   1-20  amended by adding Section 3D to read as follows:
   1-21        Sec. 3D.  LOANS AND GRANTS.  Under the authority granted by
   1-22  Section 52-a, Article III, Texas Constitution, the district may
   1-23  loan or grant money to any person for:
   1-24              (1)  water conservation equipment or technology for
   1-25  water conservation on land used for cultivation or ranching in the
   1-26  region;
   1-27              (2)  water conservation or development projects to
   1-28  assist the growth of agriculture or economic development in the
   1-29  region; or
   1-30              (3)  education in the region to promote innovation in
   1-31  agricultural water conservation practices.
   1-32        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-33  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-34  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-35  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-36  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-37  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-38  passage, and it is so enacted.
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