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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