By: Campbell S.B. No. 2075
 
  (Isaac)
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the annexation and eminent domain powers of and the
  development of certain wastewater projects by the Needmore Ranch
  Municipal Utility District No. 1.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  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  includes only groundwater that is withdrawn from a source outside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 2.  Section 8471.103(c), Special District Local Laws
  Code, is repealed.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes 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,
  this Act has no effect.