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	Amend CSSB 3 (House Committee Printing) in ARTICLE 2 of the 
bill by inserting the following appropriately numbered SECTION and 
renumbering the subsequent SECTIONS of that article accordingly:
	SECTION 2.____.  Subchapter D, Chapter 51, Natural Resources 
Code, is amended by adding Section 51.1215 to read as follows:
	Sec. 51.1215.  FEE ON GROUNDWATER EXPORTS; GROUNDWATER 
EXPORT MITIGATION ACCOUNT.  (a)  The commissioner shall impose a 
fee, in the amount determined by the commissioner for each gallon of 
groundwater exported, on the export of groundwater from public 
school land.
	(b)  The commissioner shall deposit the fee imposed under 
Subsection (a) to the credit of the groundwater export mitigation 
account.  The groundwater export mitigation account is an account 
in the general revenue fund that may be appropriated only to the 
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for the purposes of:
		(1)  mitigating damage to nearby landowners, 
municipalities, and other users of groundwater caused by the export 
of groundwater from public school land; and
		(2)  conducting independent scientific studies of 
water resources on state lands.