Amend SB 1444 on third reading by adding a new appropriately
numbered SECTIONS to the bill to read as follows:
      SECTION __. Sections 4.03(a) and (b), Chapter 1029, Acts of
the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999, are amended to read as
follows:
      (a) The authority may establish fees, rates, and charges, and
classifications of fee and rate payers, as necessary to enable the
authority to fulfill the authority's purposes and regulatory
obligations provided by this Act.
      (b) The authority may charge against the owner of a well
located in the authority's boundaries a fee on the amount of water
pumped from the well.  The board shall establish the rate of a fee
under this subsection only after a special meeting on the fee.  The
board shall by rule exempt from the fee under this subsection those
classes of wells that are not subject to groundwater reduction
requirements imposed by the subsidence district, except that if an
of those classes of wells become subject at a future date to a
groundwater reduction requirement imposed by the subsidence
district, then the authority may after that date charge the fee
under this subsection to those affected classes of wells. The board
by rule may exempt any other classes of wells from the fee under
this subsection.  The board may not apply the fee to a well:
            (1) with a casing diameter of less than five inches
that serves a single-family dwelling;
            (2) regulated under Chapter 27, Water Code;
            (3) used for irrigation of agricultural crops; or
            (4) <that produces 10 million gallons or less annually;
or>
            <(5)> used solely for electric generation.
      SECTION __. Section 4.06(a), Chapter 1029, Acts of the 76th
Legislature, Regular Session, 1999, is amended to read as follows:
      (a) The authority may:
            (1) acquire and provide by purchase, gift, <or> lease,
contract, or any other legal means, a water treatment or supply
system, or any other works, plants, improvements, or facilities
necessary ot convenient to accomplish the purposes of this
authority, or any interest in those assets, inside of or outside of
the authority's boundaries;
            (2) design, finance, or construct a water treatment or
supply system, or any other supply systems, or any other works,
plants, improvements, or facilities necessary or convenient to
accomplish the purposes of the authority, and provide water
services inside of or outside of the authority's  boundaries;
            (3) maintain, operate, lease, or sell a water treatment
or supply system, or any other works, plants, improvements, or
facilities necessary or convenient to accomplish the purposes of
the authority, that the authority constructs or acquires inside of
or outside of the authority's boundaries; and
            (4) contract with any person to operate or maintain a
water treatment or supply system the person owns.