Amend HB 4175 by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering the remaining SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Sections 8471.104 and 8471.105, Special District Local Laws Code, are amended to read as follows:

Sec. 8471.104.  NO [LIMITATION ON USE OF] EMINENT DOMAIN POWER.  [(a)]  The district may not exercise the power of eminent domain [except for the purpose of importing surface water or nonlocal groundwater into the district.

[(b)     For purposes of this section, nonlocal groundwater includes only groundwater that is withdrawn from a source outside the Edwards Aquifer and the Trinity Aquifer].

Sec. 8471.105.  LIMITATION ON ANNEXATION.  The district may not add land by petition of less than all the landowners under Section 49.302, Water Code[, unless the petition required under that section is signed by the owners of a two-thirds majority of the assessed value of the land in the defined area described by the petition].

SECTION ____.  Section 8471.103(c), Special District Local Laws Code, is repealed.

SECTION ____.  Amended Section 8471.104 and Section 8471.105, Special District Local Laws Code, take effect September 1, 2015, but only if H.B. 3405, S.B. 1440, or similar legislation of the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, that enlarges the territory of the Barton Springs-Edwards Aquifer Conservation District to include the territory of the Needmore Ranch Municipal Utility District No. 1, becomes law. If such a bill does not become law, the changes to these provisions have no effect.

HINOJOSA

CAMPBELL