By Chisum H.B. No. 2199
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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 Ground Water Conservation District [Number Three, South of the
1-11 Canadian River, in Texas]. A reference in law to the [Any place in
1-12 this Act in which the name] Ground Water Conservation District
1-13 Number Three, South of the Canadian River, or to the Panhandle
1-14 Ground Water Conservation District Number Three, South of the
1-15 Canadian River, in Texas, means the [shall appear it shall mean]
1-16 Panhandle Ground Water Conservation District [Number Three, South
1-17 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 Ground Water 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.
2-11 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
2-12 Amend H.B. No. 2199 as follows:
2-13 (1) On page 1, line 10, strike "Ground Water" and substitute
2-14 "Groundwater [Ground Water]".
2-15 (2) On page 1, line 16, strike "Ground Water" and substitute
2-16 "Groundwater [Ground Water]".
2-17 (3) On page 1, line 22, strike "Ground Water" and substitute
2-18 "Groundwater".
2-19 76R10116 WP-D Walker