By Puente H.B. No. 533
76R2637 SMJ-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the priority of a water right authorizing a transfer of
1-3 water from a river basin in this state to another river basin in
1-4 the same regional water planning area.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 11.085(s), Water Code, is amended to read
1-7 as follows:
1-8 (s) A water right, or an amendment to a permit, certified
1-9 filing, or certificate of adjudication, authorizing a [Any
1-10 proposed] transfer of [all or a portion of a] water [right] under
1-11 this section is junior in priority to water rights granted before
1-12 the time the application for the transfer is accepted for filing.
1-13 This subsection does not apply to a water right, or an amendment to
1-14 a permit, certified filing, or certificate of adjudication,
1-15 authorizing a transfer of water from a river basin in this state to
1-16 another river basin in the same regional water planning area
1-17 established under Section 16.053.
1-18 SECTION 2. (a) This Act applies only to an application for
1-19 a water right, or an amendment to a permit, certified filing, or
1-20 certificate of adjudication, authorizing an interbasin transfer of
1-21 water that is accepted for filing on or after the effective date of
1-22 this Act.
1-23 (b) An application for a water right, or an amendment to a
1-24 permit, certified filing, or certificate of adjudication,
2-1 authorizing an interbasin transfer of water that is accepted for
2-2 filing before the effective date of this Act is covered by the law
2-3 in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and
2-4 the former law continues in effect for that purpose.
2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.