** REVISION **
                          HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                          NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Natural Resources

TIME & DATE:  2:00PM or upon final adjourn./recess
             Monday, April 25, 2005

PLACE: E2.014

CHAIR: Rep. Robert Puente

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HB 2939            Hilderbran
Relating to the assumption of road district powers by certain
conservation and reclamation districts.

HB 3491            Quintanilla
Relating to the dissolution of the Homestead Municipal Utility
District, the provision of water supply services to the residents
of the district's service area after dissolution, and the rates
charged for water service by the City of El Paso; validating
certain actions of the district's board of directors.

HB 3496            Gonzalez Toureilles
Relating to the powers and duties of the Bee Groundwater
Conservation District.

HB 3502            Turner
Relating to the creation of Harris County Municipal Utility
District No. 406; providing authority to impose taxes and standby
fees and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.

HB 3508            Crownover
Relating to the method of electing directors of the Lake Cities
Municipal Utility Authority.

HB 3513            Luna
Relating to the creation of the Corpus Christi Aquifer Storage and
Recovery Conservation District; granting the power of eminent
domain.

HB 3521            Taylor
Relating to the powers of the Galveston County Municipal Utility
District No. 51, including powers related to the construction,
maintenance, operation, and financing of roads or turnpikes.

HB 3523            Denny
Relating to the creation of the Smiley Road Water Control and
Improvement District; providing authority to impose a tax and issue
bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.

HB 3548            Gattis
Relating to the creation of the Williamson County Municipal Utility
District No. 16; providing authority to impose a tax and issue
bonds.

HB 3549            Gattis
Relating to the creation of the Williamson County Municipal Utility
District No. 21; providing authority to impose a tax and issue
bonds.

HB 3556            Brown, Betty
Relating to the creation of Las Lomas Municipal Utility District
No. 4 of Kaufman County; providing authority to impose a tax and
issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.

HB 1230            Hilderbran
Relating to the name, powers, duties, and directors of the Menard
County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 and the
directors of the Menard County Underground Water District.

HB 2031            Hilderbran
Relating to the regulatory authority of groundwater conservation
districts.

HB 3551            Howard
Relating to the addition of road district powers to the Fort Bend
County Municipal Utility District No. 134.

HB 2689            Gallego
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.

HB 3123            Cook, Robby
Relating to the applicability of groundwater conservation district
rules to the state.

HB 3209            Gallego
Relating to the rights of landowners and their lessees and assigns
in groundwater.

HB 3471            Gallego
Relating to restrictions on the leasing of and export of
groundwater from public school land; imposing a fee.

HB 2445            Leibowitz
Relating to service by water and sewer utilities.

HB 3530            Geren
Relating to the creation of the City of Fort Worth Municipal
Utility District No. 2 of Tarrant County; providing authority to
impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.

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BILLS ADDED AFTER LAST POSTING:

HB 2445
HB 3530