Bill Text: TX HB3073 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the operation, powers, and duties of certain levee improvement districts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-16 - Left pending in committee [HB3073 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB3073-Introduced.html
 
 
  By: Miller of Fort Bend H.B. No. 3073
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the operation, powers, and duties of certain levee
  improvement districts.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 11.038, Water Code, is amended by
  amending Subsection (a) to read as follows:
         (a)  A person who owns or holds a possessory interest in land
  adjoining or contiguous to a canal, ditch, flume, lateral, dam,
  reservoir, or lake constructed and maintained under the provisions
  of this chapter and who has secured a right to the use of water in
  the canal, ditch, flume, lateral, dam, reservoir, or lake is
  entitled to be supplied form the canal, ditch, flume, lateral, dam,
  reservoir, or lake with water for agricultural uses, mining,
  milling, manufacturing, development of power, and stock raising, in
  accordance with the terms of the person's contact; provided that a
  Levee Improvement District created under and essential to
  accomplish the purposes of Section 59, Article XVI, Texas
  Constitution, which owns or holds a possessory interest in land
  adjoining or contiguous to a canal, ditch, flume, lateral, dam,
  reservoir, or lake constructed and maintained under the provisions
  of this chapter, is deemed to have secured a right to use the state
  water in the canal, ditch, flume, lateral, dam, reservoir, or lake
  for the purpose of irrigation of any levee owned or maintained by
  such district for the purpose of preventing the compromise of the
  structural integrity of such levee due to desiccation cracking or
  other damage resulting from insufficient rainfall or drought.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if this Act
  receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each
  house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution;
  otherwise, this Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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