1-1 By: Chisum (Senate Sponsor - Bivins) H.B. No. 2199
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1999;
1-3 April 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Natural Resources; May 10, 1999, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 10, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the authority and name of the Panhandle Ground Water
1-9 Conservation District Number Three, South of the Canadian River.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 1A, Chapter 19, Acts of the 55th
1-12 Legislature, Regular Session, 1957 (Article 8280-191, Vernon's
1-13 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-14 Sec. 1A. The name of the Ground Water Conservation District
1-15 Number Three, South of the Canadian River, is changed to Panhandle
1-16 Groundwater [Ground Water] Conservation District [Number Three,
1-17 South of the Canadian River, in Texas]. A reference in law to the
1-18 [Any place in this Act in which the name] Ground Water Conservation
1-19 District Number Three, South of the Canadian River, or to the
1-20 Panhandle Ground Water Conservation District Number Three, South of
1-21 the Canadian River, in Texas, means the [shall appear it shall
1-22 mean] Panhandle Groundwater [Ground Water] Conservation District
1-23 [Number Three, South of the Canadian River, in Texas].
1-24 SECTION 2. Chapter 19, Acts of the 55th Legislature, Regular
1-25 Session, 1957 (Article 8280-191, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
1-26 amended by adding Section 1C to read as follows:
1-27 Sec. 1C. Notwithstanding other provisions of this Act, the
1-28 Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District may regulate any
1-29 underground water resources inside of the boundaries of the
1-30 district, including any aquifer, perched water formation, or
1-31 alluvium deposit, in the manner provided by Sections 2 and 3 of
1-32 this Act and general law governing groundwater conservation
1-33 districts.
1-34 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-39 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-40 passage, and it is so enacted.
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