Bill Text: TX HB3644 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to transfer of irrigation water rights allowed by the Edwards Aquifer Authority.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-16 - Scheduled for public hearing on . . . [HB3644 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3644-Introduced.html
| By: Murr | H.B. No. 3644 | |
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| relating to transfer of irrigation water rights allowed by the | ||
| Edwards Aquifer Authority. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 1.34(c), Chapter 626, Acts of the 73rd | ||
| Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (c) A permit holder may lease permitted water rights, but a | ||
| holder of a permit for irrigation use may not lease more than 50 | ||
| percent of the irrigation rights initially permitted. The user's | ||
| remaining irrigation water rights must be used in accordance with | ||
| the original permit and must pass with transfer of the irrigated | ||
| land. However, the authority by rule may establish a procedure by | ||
| which the holder of a permit for irrigation use, or his or her | ||
| assignor, may change the place or purpose of use of the irrigation | ||
| water right and sell or lease such right in the event circumstances | ||
| arise in which continued agricultural activities on the land are | ||
| substantially impaired. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
| 1.34, Chapter 626, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular Session, | ||
| 1993, applies only to a transfer, and the contracts or other | ||
| transaction documents of any kind related thereto, including | ||
| documents related to the extension of credit, hereinafter | ||
| collectively referred to as "transfer", effective on or after the | ||
| effective date of this Act. The change in law made by this Act to | ||
| Section 1.34, Chapter 626, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular | ||
| Session, 1993, does not affect the validity of a transfer effective | ||
| before the effective date of this Act. A transfer effective before | ||
| the effective date of this Act is governed by the provisions of | ||
| Chapter 626, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, | ||
| and the rules of the Edwards Aquifer Authority in effect at the time | ||
| the transfer became effective. Transfers effective before the | ||
| effective date of this Act, that have not been rescinded, and are | ||
| not subject to pending litigation are hereby conclusively validated | ||
| in all respects. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
