82R3756 PMO-D
By: Watson S.B. No. 1350
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 to a point due north of the
intersection of Weston Lane and Brightman Lane, then south on that
line to said intersection, then south on Weston Lane to its
intersection with FM 2244, then west on FM 2244 to its intersection
with State Highway 71, then west on State Highway 71 until the
intersection with the extraterritorial jurisdiction limits of the
City of Bee Cave as of the effective date of this Act, then
generally south and west following the extraterritorial
jurisdiction limits of the City of Bee Cave, until it intersects
with State Highway 71, then west on Highway 71 until it intersects
with Bee Creek Road, then north on Bee Creek Road until it
intersects with Siesta Shores Drive, then due east from that
intersection to the southern boundary of Lake Travis, then eastward
following the southern boundary of Lake Travis until it intersects
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.