1-1     By:  Brown                                            S.B. No. 1301
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
 1-4     April 23, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 23, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1301                   By:  Brown
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to water conservation measures required in a county during
1-11     a declared drought disaster.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 16.055, Water Code, is amended by adding
1-14     Subsections (g), (h), and (i) to read as follows:
1-15           (g)  Immediately upon the declaration under Section 418.014
1-16     or 418.108, Government Code, of a state of disaster in a county due
1-17     to drought conditions, the county shall:
1-18                 (1)  publish notice of the declaration of the state of
1-19     disaster in one or more newspapers having general circulation in
1-20     the county; and
1-21                 (2)  give notice of the declaration of the state of
1-22     disaster to:
1-23                       (A)  the chairman of the regional water planning
1-24     group in which the county is located; and
1-25                       (B)  each person or entity located in the county
1-26     that is required to develop a water conservation plan under Section
1-27     11.1271 or a drought contingency plan under Section 11.1272.
1-28           (h)  On receipt of the notice under Subsection (g)(2)(B), the
1-29     person or entity shall immediately implement the person's or
1-30     entity's water conservation plan or drought contingency plan.
1-31           (i)  Nothing in this section prevents a political subdivision
1-32     or a person or entity required to develop a water conservation plan
1-33     under Section 11.1271 or a drought contingency plan under Section
1-34     11.1272 from implementing water conservation measures.
1-35           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-36           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-37     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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