Amend HB 2694 on third reading by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the ARTICLE of the bill on water rights and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the ARTICLE accordingly:

SECTION __.__.  Section 11.002(12), Water Code, is amended to read as follows:

(12)  "Agriculture" means any of the following activities:

(A)  cultivating the soil to produce crops for human food, animal feed, or planting seed or for the production of fibers;

(B)  the practice of floriculture, viticulture, silviculture, and horticulture, including the cultivation of plants in containers or nonsoil media, by a nursery grower;

(C)  raising, feeding, or keeping animals for breeding purposes or for the production of food or fiber, leather, pelts, or other tangible products having a commercial value;

(D)  raising or keeping equine animals;

(E)  wildlife management; [and]

(F)  planting cover crops, including cover crops cultivated for transplantation, or leaving land idle for the purpose of participating in any governmental program or normal crop or livestock rotation procedure; and

(G)  aquaculture, as defined by Section 134.001, Agriculture Code.