By: Lucio S.B. No. 1325
97S0831/1
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the availability of certain water for temporary
1-2 diversion and use.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 11.0871, Water Code, is amended by adding
1-5 Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-6 (d) For purposes of this section, the lowest downstream
1-7 accounting point for determining whether water is available for
1-8 temporary diversion and use pursuant to Subsection (a) shall remain
1-9 at the Anzalduas Dam.
1-10 SECTION 2. Subdivision (6), Section 15.001, Water Code, is
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 (6) "Project" means:
1-13 (A) any undertaking or work to conserve, convey,
1-14 and develop surface or subsurface water resources in the state, to
1-15 provide for the maintenance and enhancement of the quality of the
1-16 water of the state, to provide nonstructural and structural flood
1-17 control, drainage, subsidence control, recharge, chloride control,
1-18 and desalinization, and to carry out other purposes defined by
1-19 board rules; [or]
1-20 (B) any undertaking or work outside the state to
1-21 provide for the maintenance and enhancement of the quality of water
1-22 by eliminating saline inflow through well pumping and deep well
1-23 injection of brine; or
2-1 (C) any channel storage reservoir located on an
2-2 international boundary to be constructed or maintained in whole or
2-3 in part by the International Boundary and Water Commission for the
2-4 purpose of impounding waters allocated to the United States under
2-5 the 1944 Treaty with Mexico Relating to the Utilization of Waters
2-6 of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande from Fort
2-7 Quitman, Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico (59 Stat. 1219) that would
2-8 otherwise flow undiverted into the Gulf of Mexico. Funds allocated
2-9 for such a project shall be used in the furtherance of planning,
2-10 research, and obtaining regulatory authority at the local, state,
2-11 and federal level.
2-12 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-13 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.