TO: | Honorable Kip Averitt, Chair, Senate Committee on Natural Resources |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | SB1383 by Seliger (Relating to district hearings and citizen suits for illegally drilling or operating a water well. ), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted |
The bill would amend Chapter 36, Water Code, to establish procedures related to an investigation and a hearing conducted by a groundwater conservation district in response to a complaint or suit by an owner of a well regarding another person operating or drilling wells without a permit or in other violation of district rules. The provisions of the bill would apply only to a violation that occurs on or after the effective date of the bill.
The bill would take effect immediately if it were to receive the required two-thirds vote in each house; otherwise, it would take effect September 1, 2007.
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LBB Staff: | JOB, WK, DB
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