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79R6448 SMH-D

By:  Gallego                                                      H.B. No. 2689



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to a temporary moratorium on the authority of the General 
Land Office to lease the right to produce groundwater from state 
land or facilitate a water marketing initiative.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 31, Natural Resources 
Code, is amended by adding Section 31.069 to read as follows:
	Sec. 31.069.  TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON GROUNDWATER LEASES OR 
FACILITATION OF WATER MARKETING INITIATIVES.  (a) Notwithstanding 
any other law, the commissioner and the land office may not:
		(1)  lease the right to produce groundwater from state 
land to an individual or a private entity; or
		(2)  use any state resource to facilitate a water 
marketing initiative of an individual or a private entity.
	(b)  This section expires September 1, 2007.                            
	SECTION 2.  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.