By Chisum                                             H.B. No. 2199
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the authority and name of the Panhandle Ground Water
 1-3     Conservation District Number Three, South of the Canadian River.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 1A, Chapter 19, Acts of the 55th
 1-6     Legislature, Regular Session, 1957 (Article 8280-191, Vernon's
 1-7     Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 1A.  The name of the Ground Water Conservation District
 1-9     Number Three, South of the Canadian River, is changed to Panhandle
1-10     Groundwater [Ground Water] Conservation District [Number Three,
1-11     South of the Canadian River, in Texas].  A reference in law to the
1-12     [Any place in this Act in which the name] Ground Water Conservation
1-13     District Number Three, South of the Canadian River, or to the
1-14     Panhandle Ground Water Conservation District Number Three, South of
1-15     the Canadian River, in Texas, means the [shall appear it shall
1-16     mean] Panhandle Groundwater [Ground Water] Conservation District
1-17     [Number Three, South of the Canadian River, in Texas].
1-18           SECTION 2.  Chapter 19, Acts of the 55th Legislature, Regular
1-19     Session, 1957 (Article 8280-191, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
1-20     amended by adding Section 1C to read as follows:
1-21           Sec. 1C.  Notwithstanding other provisions of this Act, the
1-22     Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District may regulate any
1-23     underground water resources inside of the boundaries of the
1-24     district, including any aquifer, perched water formation, or
 2-1     alluvium deposit, in the manner provided by Sections 2 and 3 of
 2-2     this Act and general law governing groundwater conservation
 2-3     districts.
 2-4           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-9     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-10     passage, and it is so enacted.