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79R7303 QS-D

By:  Geren                                                        H.B. No. 1513



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to permit exemptions for certain users of state water.               
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 11.142(a), Water Code, is amended to 
read as follows:    
	(a)  Without obtaining a permit, a person may construct on 
the person's own property a dam or reservoir with normal storage of 
not more than 200 acre-feet of water for domestic and livestock 
purposes.  A person who temporarily stores more than 200 acre-feet 
of water in a dam or reservoir described by this subsection is not 
required to obtain a permit for the dam or reservoir if the person 
can demonstrate that the person has not stored in the dam or 
reservoir more than 200 acre-feet of water on average in any 
12-month period.  [This exemption does not apply to a commercial 
operation.]
	SECTION 2.  Section 11.142(b), Water Code, as added by 
Section 1, Chapter 1427, Acts of the 77th Legislature, Regular 
Session, 2001, is repealed.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.