By: Campbell S.B. No. 2075
(Isaac)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the annexation and eminent domain powers of and the
development of certain wastewater projects by the Needmore Ranch
Municipal Utility District No. 1.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 8471.104 and 8471.105, Special District
Local Laws Code, are amended to read as follows:
Sec. 8471.104. NO [LIMITATION ON USE OF] EMINENT DOMAIN
POWER. [(a)] The district may not exercise the power of eminent
domain [except for the purpose of importing surface water or
nonlocal groundwater into the district.
[(b) For purposes of this section, nonlocal groundwater
includes only groundwater that is withdrawn from a source outside
the Edwards Aquifer and the Trinity Aquifer].
Sec. 8471.105. LIMITATION ON ANNEXATION. The district may
not add land by petition of less than all the landowners under
Section 49.302, Water Code[, unless the petition required under
that section is signed by the owners of a two-thirds majority of the
assessed value of the land in the defined area described by the
petition].
SECTION 2. Section 8471.103(c), Special District Local Laws
Code, is repealed.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015, but only
if H.B. 3405, S.B. 1440, or similar legislation of the 84th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, that enlarges the territory of
the Barton Springs-Edwards Aquifer Conservation District to
include the territory of the Needmore Ranch Municipal Utility
District No. 1, becomes law. If such a bill does not become law,
this Act has no effect.