1-1 By: Brown S.B. No. 143 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 11, 1999; January 28, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; 1-4 February 25, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; 1-6 February 25, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 143 By: Brown 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the priority of a water right authorizing a transfer of 1-11 water from a river basin in this state to another river basin. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Subsections (s) and (t), Section 11.085, Water 1-14 Code, are repealed. 1-15 SECTION 2. (a) This Act applies only to an application for 1-16 a water right, or an amendment to a permit, certified filing, or 1-17 certificate of adjudication, authorizing an interbasin transfer of 1-18 water that is accepted for filing on or after the effective date of 1-19 this Act. 1-20 (b) An application for a water right, or an amendment to a 1-21 permit, certified filing, or certificate of adjudication, 1-22 authorizing an interbasin transfer of water that is accepted for 1-23 filing before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law 1-24 in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and 1-25 the former law continues in effect for that purpose. 1-26 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-27 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-28 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-29 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-30 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-31 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-32 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-33 * * * * *