83R31289 AED-D
By: Estes S.R. No. 1063
R E S O L U T I O N
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 83rd
Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, 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 281 (administration and powers of the Red River Authority of
Texas) to consider and take action on the following matter:
(1) Senate Rule 12.03(3) is suspended to permit the
committee to add text on a matter which is not in disagreement by
adding text in SECTION 3 of the bill, in added Section 19a, Chapter
279, Acts of the 56th Legislature, Regular Session, 1959, to read as
follows:
Sec. 19a. The Authority may purchase groundwater rights in
a county in the Authority's territory only if:
(1) there is a groundwater conservation district that
has jurisdiction over water wells located in the county; or
(2) in the case where a county is not in the
jurisdiction of a groundwater conservation district, the
commissioners court of the county approves the purchase of
groundwater rights by the Authority in the county.
Explanation: This change is necessary to clarify under what
conditions the Red River Authority of Texas may purchase
groundwater rights.