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