** REVISION **
SENATE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
COMMITTEE: Natural Resources
TIME & DATE: 2:00PM, Thursday, May 10, 2001
PLACE: E1.012
CHAIR: Senator J. E. "Buster" Brown
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The Committee will meet to hear the following:
HB 1281 Counts / et al. SP: Wentworth
Relating to water utility services, rates, and tariffs.
HB 1426 Shields SP: Lindsay
Relating to the repeal of an obsolete provision authorizing a
temporary reduction of the royalty rate on gas produced from
certain state land.
HB 1628 Deshotel SP: Bernsen
Relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas
Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation to Spindletop
MHMR Services.
HB 1880 Swinford SP: Duncan
Relating to the creation, operation, and administration of
agricultural development districts and granting the power of
eminent domain and the authority to issue bonds.
HB 2033 Pitts SP: Lucio
Relating to requiring notice to purchasers of real property located
in a certificated service area of a utility service provider
regarding the cost or availability of water or sewer service.
HB 2046 Hawley SP: Armbrister
Relating to the ratification of the creation of and to the
administration, powers, duties, operation, and financing of the
Refugio Groundwater Conservation District.
HB 2144 Gray SP: Bernsen
Relating to certain purchases by the General Land Office.
HB 2310 Chisum SP: Zaffirini
Relating to the continuation and functions of the State Soil and
Water Conservation Board and to the election of directors of local
soil and water conservation districts.
HB 2379 Junell SP: Duncan
Relating to the authority of certain development corporations to
undertake water supply or conservation projects.
HB 2400 Geren SP: Moncrief
Relating to liability of sponsors of and participants in certain
activities involving animals.
HB 2409 Counts SP: Armbrister
Relating to restrictions on artificial recharge of the Edwards
Aquifer.
HB 2436 Merritt SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to a requirement that the Bureau of Economic Geology of
The University of Texas at Austin conduct a study of the East Texas
Oil Field.
HB 2588 Counts SP: Bernsen
Relating to the consideration of potential water savings under a
water conservation plan in determining the manner of distributing
water during a shortage from a water supply covered by a plan.
HB 2649 Capelo SP: Duncan
Relating to prohibiting the Texas Natural Resource Conservation
Commission from imposing controls more stringent than federal
controls on motor fuel content.
HB 2718 Lewis, Ron SP: Armbrister
Relating to the recovery of certain relocation costs by a gas
utility.
HB 2761 Brown, Betty SP: Cain
Relating to the conversion of the Kaufman County Municipal Utility
District No. 1 to Kaufman County Levee Improvement District No. 4,
operating as a levee improvement district.
HB 2855 Kuempel SP: Wentworth
Relating to the ratification of the creation of and to the
administration, powers, duties, operation, taxing authority, and
financing of the Southeast Trinity Groundwater Conservation
District.
HB 2859 Junell SP: Fraser
Relating to authorizing the Texas Board of Criminal Justice to
grant a conservation easement covering certain state property.
HB 2913 Bonnen SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the compensation of commissioners and the tax rate of
the Brazoria County Conservation and Reclamation District Number
Three.
HB 2997 Callegari SP: Lucio
Relating to the implementation by the Texas Natural Resource
Conservation Commission of a program to encourage the use of
environmental management systems.
HB 3040 Geren SP: Lucio
Relating to air pollutant emissions permitting requirements for
shipyard facilities.
HB 3095 Counts SP: Haywood
Relating to the governing body and powers of the Salt Fork Water
Quality District.
HB 3111 Zbranek SP: Bernsen
Relating to occupational licenses and registrations issued by the
Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission.
HB 3123 Alexander SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the standards for determining whether land qualifies
for appraisal for ad valorem tax purposes as open-space land based
on its use for wildlife management.
HB 3159 Bonnen SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the compensation and per diem of the commissioners of
Brazoria Drainage District Number 4.
HB 3194 Howard SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Fort Bend County Levee Improvement
District Number 16 and to the authorization of bonds and the levy
of taxes; providing civil penalties.
HB 3195 Howard SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Fort Bend County Municipal Utility
District Number 134 and to the authorization of bonds and the levy
of taxes; providing civil penalties.
HB 3543 Hilderbran SP: Wentworth
Relating to the name, elections, duties, powers, operation, and
financing of the Headwaters Underground Water Conservation
District.
HB 3648 Hope SP: Bernsen
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the East Montgomery County Municipal
Utility District No. 3.
HB 3653 Ritter SP: Bernsen
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Jefferson County Waterway and
Navigation District and the merger of the Jefferson County
Navigation District with that district.
HB 3659 Counts SP: Fraser
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Wes-Tex Groundwater Conservation
District.
HB 3665 Miller SP: Sibley
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Cross Timbers Groundwater
Conservation District.
HB 3670 Jones, Delwin SP: Duncan
Relating to the election and qualifications of directors of the
Lubbock County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1.
HB 3675 Bonnen SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Brazoria County Groundwater
Conservation District.
HB 3682 Alexander SP: Ogden
Relating to the creation, administration, powers and duties of the
NTM Improvement District; providing authority to impose taxes and
issue bonds.
HCR 226 Williams SP: Bernsen
Memorializing congress to modify the tax code to allow for the
issuance of tax-exempt industrial revenue bonds for air
pollution control facilities in nonattainment areas.
SB 1752 Wentworth
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Kimble County Groundwater
Conservation District.
HB 2045 Williams SP: Bernsen
Relating to the disposition of impact fees by municipal utility
districts.
HB 3023 Chisum SP: Bivins
Relating to water quality permit applications for certain
facilities located near a sole-source drinking water supply.
HB 3315 Ramsay SP: Bernsen
Relating to county regulation of outdoor burning.
HB 3628 Green SP: Armbrister
Relating to the validation of the creation and to the
administration, powers, duties, operation, and financing of the
Hays County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 and the
provision of certain services in the district.
HB 3629 Green SP: Armbrister
Relating to the validation of the creation and to the
administration, powers, duties, operation, and financing of the
Hays County Water Control and Improvement District No. 2 and the
provision of certain services in the district.
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SPONSORS CHANGED AFTER LAST POSTING:
HB 2997