Amend HB 655 (senate committee printing) as follows:

(1)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill:

SECTION ____.  Section 11.155, Water Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 11.155.  AQUIFER STORAGE AND RECOVERY [PILOT PROJECT] REPORTS. [(a) On completion of each pilot project, the board and the commission jointly shall:

[(1)     prepare a report evaluating the success of the project; and

[(2)     provide copies of the report to the governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of representatives.

[(b)]  The board shall make [other] studies, investigations, and surveys of the aquifers in the state as it considers necessary to determine the occurrence, quantity, quality, and availability of [other] aquifers in which water may be stored and subsequently retrieved for beneficial use. The board shall undertake the studies, investigations, and surveys in the following order of priority:

(1)  [the aquifers described in Section 11.153(a);

[(2)]  areas designated by the commission as "priority groundwater management areas" under Section 35.008; and

(2) [(3)]  other areas of the state in a priority to be determined by the board's ranking of where the greatest need exists.

(2)  Strike SECTION 4 of the bill (page 4, lines 65 through 69) and substitute the following appropriately numbered SECTION:

SECTION ____.  The following sections of the Water Code are repealed:

(1)  Sections 11.153(d) and (e); and

(2)  Section 11.154.

(3)  Renumber the SECTIONS of the bill accordingly.