By Ellis S.B. No. 802
76R3461 SMJ-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the consideration of desalinization programs in local
1-3 water planning.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 16.054(a), (c), and (d), Water Code, are
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) The board, commission, and Parks and Wildlife Department
1-8 shall make available where appropriate technical and financial
1-9 assistance for local water [such] planning.
1-10 (c) When preparing a plan to be submitted under this
1-11 section, a person shall consider the implementation of a
1-12 desalinization program if practicable.
1-13 (d) [(c)] The regional water planning group shall consider
1-14 any plan submitted under this section when preparing the regional
1-15 water plan under Section 16.053 of this code.
1-16 (e) [(d)] When preparing individual water plans that address
1-17 drought or the development, management, or conservation of water
1-18 resources from the holders of existing permits, certified filings,
1-19 or certificates of adjudication, the water suppliers, groundwater
1-20 districts, special districts, irrigation districts, and other water
1-21 users should ensure that the plan is not in conflict with the
1-22 applicable approved regional water plan for their region.
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.