S.B. No. 1441
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to withdrawals of water from the Edwards Aquifer to supply
  a military installation.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  The heading to Section 1.33, Chapter 626, Acts of
  the 73rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, is amended to read as
  follows:
         Sec. 1.33.  WELL METERING AND PERMITTING EXEMPTIONS 
  [EXEMPTION].
         SECTION 2.  Section 1.33, Chapter 626, Acts of the 73rd
  Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, is amended by adding
  Subsections (e), (f), and (g) to read as follows:
         (e)  In addition to permitted withdrawals from the aquifer, a
  municipally owned utility owned by the City of San Antonio, without
  a permit, may withdraw groundwater from the aquifer if:
               (1)  the utility uses the groundwater to supply a
  military installation with water for human consumption,
  irrigation, operations, mission support, or infrastructure
  maintenance;
               (2)  the utility and the military installation enter
  into a contract requiring the installation to reduce its
  groundwater withdrawals from the aquifer by the same amount of
  withdrawn water the installation receives from the utility; and
               (3)  the utility complies with rules adopted by the
  authority that allow the authority to monitor groundwater
  withdrawals from the aquifer by the utility and determine amounts
  of groundwater exempted from permitting in accordance with this
  subsection, including rules requiring the reporting of amounts
  supplied by the utility to the military installation and amounts by
  which the military installation reduces the installation's
  groundwater withdrawals from the aquifer.
         (f)  Subsection (e) of this section does not alter the
  obligations of a military installation under a biological opinion
  issued by a federal agency.
         (g)  The amount of water provided by a municipally owned
  utility to a military installation under Subsection (e) of this
  section may not exceed the maximum amount of water that the military
  installation is authorized to withdraw from the aquifer under a
  biological opinion issued by a federal agency.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
 
 
 
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1441 passed the Senate on    
  April 19, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
  the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 27, 2021, by the
  following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1441 passed the House, with
  amendment, on May 18, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 136,
  Nays 1, two present not voting.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
 
  Approved:
 
  ______________________________ 
              Date
 
 
  ______________________________ 
            Governor