82R16682 PMO-F
By: Workman H.B. No. 3822
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to land excluded from the Hill Country Priority
Groundwater Management Area.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 35, Water Code, is amended by adding
Section 35.0081 to read as follows:
Sec. 35.0081. CERTAIN LAND EXCLUDED FROM HILL COUNTRY
PRIORITY GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT AREA. (a) The Hill Country
Priority Groundwater Management Area may not include the territory
described by Section 2 of the Act enacting this section.
(b) The boundaries and field notes contained in Section 2 of
the Act enacting this section form a closure. A mistake made in the
field notes or in copying the field notes in the legislative process
does not affect the exclusion of the territory described from the
Hill Country Priority Groundwater Management Area.
SECTION 2. The territory excluded from the Hill Country
Priority Groundwater Management Area is described as follows:
Beginning at the point of intersection of the current western
boundary of the Barton Springs-Edwards Aquifer Conservation
District and the Colorado River, then following westerly along the
southern border of the Colorado River and Lake Travis to the western
Travis County Boundary, then proceeding south along the western
Travis County Boundary to the intersection of the Travis County
boundary and the Hays County boundary, then south east along the
southern Travis County boundary to the current western boundary of
the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District; then
north-east along the western boundary of the Barton Springs-Edwards
Aquifer Conservation District, the point of beginning.
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, 2011.