By: Watson S.B. No. 292
(In the Senate - Filed December 21, 2010; February 23, 2011,
read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
March 9, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11,
Nays 0; March 9, 2011, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to changes in the single-member district boundaries of the
Barton Springs-Edwards Aquifer Conservation District.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 8802.053, Special District Local Laws
Code, is amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection
(c-1) to read as follows:
(c) As soon as practicable after the publication of each
federal decennial census, the board shall revise the single-member
districts as the board considers appropriate to reflect population
changes.
(c-1) In this subsection, a reference to a highway, street,
road, avenue, boulevard, or lane means the centerline of that
highway, street, road, avenue, boulevard, or lane. When the board
revises the single-member districts [under this subsection], the
board shall place two of the districts wholly within the territory
described as follows: Beginning at the eastern district boundary
and the Colorado River, then south along the eastern district
boundary to the intersection of Interstate Highway 35 and Slaughter
Lane; then west along Slaughter Lane to the district boundary, then
north along the district boundary to the Colorado River, then east
along the Colorado River following the district boundary to the
point of the beginning
[(1) entirely within the boundaries of the city of
Austin, as those boundaries exist at that time; or
[(2) within the boundaries of the city of Austin, as
those boundaries exist at that time, but also including
unincorporated areas or other municipalities that are surrounded
wholly or partly by the boundaries of the city of Austin if the
areas or municipalities are noncontiguous to the territory of any
other single-member district].
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 8802, Special District
Local Laws Code, is amended by adding Section 8802.054 to read as
follows:
Sec. 8802.054. APPLICABILITY OF OTHER LAW. Section
36.059(b), Water Code, does not apply to the district.
SECTION 3. Subsection (b), Section 8802.051, and Subsection
(d), Section 8802.053, Special District Local Laws Code, are
repealed.
SECTION 4. (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 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,
lieutenant governor, and 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 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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