Amend CSHB 4 (House Committee Printing) by adding the
following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumbering
subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 11.085(v), Water Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(v) The provisions of this section, except Subsection (a),
do not apply to:
(1) a proposed transfer which in combination with any
existing transfers totals less than 3,000 acre-feet of water per
annum from the same permit, certified filing, or certificate of
adjudication;
(2) a request for an emergency transfer of water; or
(3) [a proposed transfer from a basin to its adjoining
coastal basin; or
[(4)] a proposed transfer from a basin to a county or
municipality or the municipality's retail service area that is
partially within the basin for use in that part of the county or
municipality and the municipality's retail service area not within
the basin.