By: Dunnam H.R. No. 2934
R E S O L U T I O N
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of
Texas, 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, That House Rule 13,
Section 9(a), be suspended in part as provided by House Rule 13,
Section 9(f), to enable the conference committee appointed to
resolve the differences on Senate Bill 2513 (name and confirmation
of, and certain fees imposed by, the McLennan County Groundwater
Conservation District and the authority to create certain adjacent
groundwater conservation districts) to consider and take action on
the following matter:
House Rule 13, Sections 9(a)(3) and (4), are suspended to
permit the committee to add the following:
SECTION 3. Section 8821.002, Special District Local
Laws Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 8821.002. NATURE OF DISTRICT. The district is a
groundwater conservation district in McLennan County created under
and essential to accomplish the purposes of Section 59, Article
XVI, Texas Constitution. The district is located in a priority
groundwater management area designated by the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality pursuant to Section 35.008, Water Code.
Explanation: The addition of the SECTION to the bill is
necessary to recognize that the Southern Trinity Groundwater
Conservation District is in a priority groundwater management area
designated by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
House Rule 13, Sections 9(a)(3) and (4), are suspended to
permit the committee to add the following:
SECTION 8. Notwithstanding Sections 35.012 and 36.0151,
Water Code, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality shall
not, before September 1, 2011, create a groundwater conservation
district:
(1) in the priority groundwater management area in
which the Southern Trinity Groundwater Conservation District is
located; or
(2) in a priority groundwater management area that is
adjacent to the priority groundwater management area in which the
Southern Trinity Groundwater Conservation District is located.
Explanation: The addition of the SECTION to the bill is
necessary to delay until September 1, 2011, the requirement for the
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to create a groundwater
conservation district in the same priority groundwater management
area in which the Southern Trinity Groundwater Conservation
District is located or in a priority groundwater management area
that is adjacent to that district.