HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                          NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Natural Resources

TIME & DATE:  2:00PM or upon final adjourn./recess
             Monday, March 21, 2005

PLACE: Capitol Extension, E2.014

CHAIR: Rep. Robert Puente

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HB 856            Callegari
Relating to the general powers, authority, and directors of the
West Harris County Regional Water Authority.

HB 578            Campbell
Relating to a statewide emergency water delivery plan.

HB 881            Seaman
Relating to the dissolution of the Aransas County Conservation and
Reclamation District.

HB 1207            Haggerty
Relating to the deadline for filing a petition to exclude land from
a water district with outstanding bonds for failure to provide
sufficient services.

HB 1517            Baxter
Relating to the annexation by a municipality of a water district in
its extraterritorial jurisdiction.

HB 1670            Cook, Robby
Relating to the resolution of conflicts between regional water
plans and groundwater conservation district management plans.

HB 1673            Cook, Robby
Relating to the procedure for conversion and creation of a special
utility district.

HB 1241            Hopson
Relating to the creation of the Houston County Groundwater
Conservation District; providing authority to impose a tax and
issue bonds.

HB 1358            Flores
Relating to the jurisdiction of the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality over certain water supply or sewer service
corporations.

HB 1462            Flores
Relating to the referral by the Texas Water Development Board of
certain persons to another state agency, office, or division for
investigation or enforcement action.

HB 1599            Callegari
Relating to a conservation and reclamation district's use of money
received under a contract with a municipality.

HB 2045            Puente
Relating to incorporation of a water supply and sewer service
corporation as a nonprofit corporation.

HB 2046            Puente
Relating to the applicability of the open meetings law to actions
taken by certain directors of a water district;  providing a
criminal penalty.

HB 2241            Callegari
Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to require a
contract between a municipal utility district and the municipality
before the district issues obligations.

HB 2430            Puente / et al.
Relating to the establishment of a rainwater harvesting evaluation
committee.

The committee will also consider pending business.

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