S.B. No. 1799




AN ACT

relating to the powers and duties of the Bee Groundwater 
Conservation District.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 5, Chapter 678, Acts of 
the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, is amended to read as 
follows:
	(a)  The district has all of the rights, powers, privileges, 
authority, functions, and duties provided by the general law of 
this state, including Chapter [Chapters] 36 [and 49], Water Code, 
applicable to groundwater conservation districts created under 
Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution.  This Act prevails 
over any provision of general law that is in conflict or 
inconsistent with this Act.
	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.

                                                                              




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President of the Senate             Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1799 passed the Senate on 
May 4, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.




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   Secretary of the Senate             
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1799 passed the House on 
May 20, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 139, Nays 0, two 
present not voting.




______________________________ 
   Chief Clerk of the House            



Approved:


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            Date



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          Governor