Amend CSHB 1818 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 81.0523, Natural Resources Code, is amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
(e) Notwithstanding Subsections (b) and (c), a municipality or other political subdivision that enacted an ordinance or other measure before May 18, 2015, that prohibited, limited, or regulated the drilling or use of oil and gas waste disposal wells in the territory of the municipality or other political subdivision may notify the commission that a permit application pending before the commission proposes to drill or use a well that would have been prohibited, limited, or regulated under the ordinance or other measure. Notwithstanding Chapter 27, Water Code, if the commission receives notice under this section, the commission may not issue the permit unless the permit complies with the former ordinance or measure identified in the notice.