Bill Text: TX HB3663 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the powers and duties of the North Central Texas Municipal Water Authority.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB3663 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3663-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3663 |
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relating to the powers and duties of the North Central Texas | ||
Municipal Water Authority. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 9, Chapter 86, Acts of the 55th | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 1957, is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 9. The Authority is empowered to acquire land and to | ||
construct, lease or otherwise acquire all works, plants and other | ||
facilities necessary or useful for the purpose of diverting, | ||
further impounding or storing water, processing such water and | ||
transporting it to cities and others for municipal, domestic, | ||
industrial and mining purposes. Subject to the terms of any deed of | ||
trust issued by the Authority, the Authority may sell, trade or | ||
otherwise dispose of any real or personal property deemed by the | ||
Board of Directors not to be needed for Authority purposes. The | ||
Authority is [ |
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underground sources of water. The Authority is not authorized to | ||
exercise powers of eminent domain outside the boundaries of Baylor, | ||
Knox, Haskell and Throckmorton Counties. | ||
SECTION 2. All acts of the North Central Texas Municipal | ||
Water Authority relating to the development or acquisition of | ||
groundwater occurring on or before the effective date of this Act | ||
and taken in response to emergency drought conditions that have not | ||
been rescinded or are the subject of pending litigation are | ||
validated in all respects. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3663 was passed by the House on May 3, | ||
2019, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 3663 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |