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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to land excluded from the Hill Country Priority |
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Groundwater Management Area. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Chapter 35, Water Code, is amended by adding |
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Section 35.0081 to read as follows: |
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Sec. 35.0081. CERTAIN LAND EXCLUDED FROM HILL COUNTRY |
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PRIORITY GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT AREA. (a) The Hill Country |
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Priority Groundwater Management Area may not include the territory |
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described by Section 2 of the Act enacting this section. |
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(b) The boundaries and field notes contained in Section 2 of |
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the Act enacting this section form a closure. A mistake made in the |
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field notes or in copying the field notes in the legislative process |
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does not affect the exclusion of the territory described from the |
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Hill Country Priority Groundwater Management Area. |
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SECTION 2. The territory excluded from the Hill Country |
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Priority Groundwater Management Area is described as follows: |
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Beginning at the point of intersection of the current western |
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boundary of the Barton Springs-Edwards Aquifer Conservation |
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District and the Colorado River, then following westerly along the |
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southern border of the Colorado River and Lake Travis to the western |
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Travis County Boundary, then proceeding south along the western |
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Travis County Boundary to the intersection of the Travis County |
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boundary and the Hays County boundary, then south east along the |
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southern Travis County boundary to the current western boundary of |
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the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District; then |
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north-east along the western boundary of the Barton Springs-Edwards |
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Aquifer Conservation District, the point of beginning. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |