Bill Text: TX HB3624 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the sunset review of the Sulphur River Basin Authority.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-21 - Referred to Natural Resources [HB3624 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3624-Introduced.html
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| By: Lavender | H.B. No. 3624 | |
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| relating to the sunset review of the Sulphur River Basin Authority. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. SULPHUR RIVER BASIN AUTHORITY. Chapter 3, Acts | ||
| of the 69th Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1985, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 1A to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 1A. APPLICATION OF SUNSET ACT. (a) The authority is | ||
| subject to Section 325.025, Government Code. Unless the authority | ||
| is continued in existence as provided by Chapter 325 of that code, | ||
| on September 1, 2015: | ||
| (1) the authority is abolished; | ||
| (2) the assets of the authority are transferred to | ||
| this state; and | ||
| (3) this Act expires. | ||
| (b) The abolishment of the authority does not affect any | ||
| existing rights, or existing priorities in the rights, to water | ||
| from the source of supply. The abolishment of the authority is not | ||
| an abandonment or waiver of those rights or priorities and is not an | ||
| abandonment of the original point of diversion from the source of | ||
| supply. All those rights existing at the time of the abolishment of | ||
| the authority are preserved. | ||
| SECTION 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. 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, 2013. | ||
