Bill Text: TX HB822 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the Edwards Aquifer Authority's power to regulate the transportation of groundwater out of certain counties.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-18 - Referred to Natural Resources [HB822 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB822-Introduced.html
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| By: Gutierrez | H.B. No. 822 | |
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| relating to the Edwards Aquifer Authority's power to regulate the | ||
| transportation of groundwater out of certain counties. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 1.28, Chapter 626, Acts of the 73rd | ||
| Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, is amended by adding Subsection | ||
| (b-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (b-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (b) of this section, the | ||
| authority may allow a person to construct, acquire, or own | ||
| facilities for transporting groundwater out of Uvalde County if the | ||
| person holds a permit authorizing the person to withdraw the water | ||
| to be transported. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) The legal notice of the intention to | ||
| introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this | ||
| Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a | ||
| copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies, | ||
| officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished | ||
| under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313, | ||
| Government Code. | ||
| (b) The governor, one of the required recipients, has | ||
| submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on | ||
| Environmental Quality. | ||
| (c) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed | ||
| its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, the | ||
| lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of | ||
| representatives within the required time. | ||
| (d) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this | ||
| state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect | ||
| to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled | ||
| and accomplished. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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. | ||
