By Brown S.B. No. 143 76R3702 SMJ-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the priority of a water right authorizing a transfer of 1-3 water from a river basin in this state to another river basin. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 11.085(s), Water Code, is repealed. 1-6 SECTION 2. (a) This Act applies only to an application for 1-7 a water right, or an amendment to a permit, certified filing, or 1-8 certificate of adjudication, authorizing an interbasin transfer of 1-9 water that is accepted for filing on or after the effective date of 1-10 this Act. 1-11 (b) An application for a water right, or an amendment to a 1-12 permit, certified filing, or certificate of adjudication, 1-13 authorizing an interbasin transfer of water that is accepted for 1-14 filing before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law 1-15 in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and 1-16 the former law continues in effect for that purpose. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.