By: Averitt S.R. No. 1076
SENATE RESOLUTION
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 81st
Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, That Senate Rule 12.03 be
suspended in part as provided by Senate Rule 12.08 to enable the
conference committee appointed to resolve the differences on
Senate Bill No. 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:
(1) Senate Rules 12.03(3) and (4) are suspended to permit
the conference 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.
(2) Senate Rules 12.03(3) and (4) are suspended to permit
the conference 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 11, 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.
_______________________________
President of the Senate
I hereby certify that the
above Resolution was adopted by
the Senate on May 31, 2009.
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Secretary of the Senate