Amend SB 1 on third reading by adding a new SECTION to the
bill, appropriately numbered, to read as follows:
      SECTION ____.  Subchapter D, Chapter 51, Water Code, is
amended by adding Section 51.196 to read as follows:
      Sec. 51.196.  DEVELOPMENT OF UNDERGROUND WATER BY CERTAIN
DISTRICTS. A conservation and reclamation district created by
special law under the authority of Section 59, Article XVI, Texas
Constitution, and designated as a municipal water district to which
the administrative and taxing provisions applicable to districts
governed by this chapter apply, may develop or otherwise acquire
underground sources of water, notwithstanding a provision in that
district's special law otherwise prohibiting the development of
acquisition of underground water.