Bill Text: TX SB750 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of a groundwater conservation district in a priority groundwater management area.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-23 - Referred to Natural Resources [SB750 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB750-Introduced.html
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By: Seliger | S.B. No. 750 |
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relating to the creation of a groundwater conservation district in | ||
a priority groundwater management area. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 35.012, Water Code, is amended by adding | ||
Subsections (b-1), (b-2), and (b-3) to read as follows: | ||
(b-1) Except as provided by Subsection (b-2), a district | ||
created under Subchapter B, Chapter 36, must be composed of | ||
territory in two or more contiguous counties, unless the commission | ||
determines that a district composed of territory in noncontiguous | ||
counties will result in more effective or efficient groundwater | ||
management than other options available to the commission. | ||
(b-2) A district created under Section 36.0151 may be | ||
composed of territory that exists in a single county only if: | ||
(1) the territory in the county is the only area in the | ||
designated priority groundwater management area that is not in a | ||
district; or | ||
(2) there are other areas in the designated priority | ||
groundwater management area, but: | ||
(A) the other areas are not contiguous to the | ||
territory; and | ||
(B) the commission determines that creating a | ||
single district composed of two or more of the noncontiguous areas, | ||
including the territory, would result in less effective or less | ||
efficient management of groundwater resources in the territory than | ||
creating a district composed of the territory in the single county. | ||
(b-3) For purposes of this section, the commission may | ||
consider territory in two separately designated priority | ||
groundwater management areas to be in the same designated priority | ||
groundwater management area if: | ||
(1) the two areas share a common boundary and one or | ||
more common aquifers; and | ||
(2) the commission determines that a district composed | ||
of territory in the two areas will result in more effective or | ||
efficient groundwater management than other options available to | ||
the commission. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 36.012(a) and (b), Water Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A district may include all or part of two [ |
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counties, and one or more municipalities [ |
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other political subdivisions. | ||
(b) A district must be composed of territory in two or more | ||
contiguous counties, unless the commission determines that a | ||
district composed of territory in noncontiguous counties will | ||
result in more effective or efficient groundwater management than | ||
other options available to the commission [ |
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SECTION 3. Section 35.012(b-1), Water Code, as added by | ||
this Act, and Section 36.012, Water Code, as amended by this Act, | ||
apply only to a district created on or after the effective date of | ||
this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |