79R6043 T
By: Lindsay S.B. No. 594
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
amending Section 11.085, Water Code, by adding Subsection (w)
relating to interbasin transfers of water rights within certain
regional water planning areas; and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Section 11.085, Water Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (w) to read as follows:
(w) The provisions of Subsections (s) and (t) of this
section do not apply to a proposed transfer between river basins
that are located within a single regional water planning area
designated in accordance with Section 16.053 of this code if such
regional water planning area contains within its boundaries:
(1) all or any portion of a county with a population of more
than 3.3 million, according to the most recent federal census; and
(2) all or any portion of at least three river basins.
SECTION 2. That the importance of this legislation and the
crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
passage, and it is so enacted.