By: Hegar  S.B. No. 1526
         (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2007; March 20, 2007, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
  April 11, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 11,
  Nays 0; April 11, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to regulation by the Brookshire-Katy Drainage District of
  the construction of drainage facilities or improvements.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 6A, Chapter 203, Acts of the 57th
  Legislature, Regular Session, 1961, is amended by amending
  Subsection (g) and adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:
         (g)  This section does not apply to[:
               [(1)]  agricultural activity[; or
               [(2)     any other activity that does not create an
  aggregate impervious area of more than one acre].
         (i)  The District may adopt rules to exempt from the
  requirements of this section a drainage facility or improvement on
  or to serve a tract of land in the District if the facility or
  improvement does not create an aggregate impervious area of more
  than one acre.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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