Bill Text: TX HB3073 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the operation, powers, and duties of certain levee improvement districts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-16 - Left pending in committee [HB3073 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB3073-Introduced.html

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By: Miller of Fort Bend H.B. No. 3073

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the operation, powers, and duties of certain levee
improvement districts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 11.038, Water Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (a) to read as follows:
(a) A person who owns or holds a possessory interest in land
adjoining or contiguous to a canal, ditch, flume, lateral, dam,
reservoir, or lake constructed and maintained under the provisions
of this chapter and who has secured a right to the use of water in
the canal, ditch, flume, lateral, dam, reservoir, or lake is
entitled to be supplied form the canal, ditch, flume, lateral, dam,
reservoir, or lake with water for agricultural uses, mining,
milling, manufacturing, development of power, and stock raising, in
accordance with the terms of the person's contact; provided that a
Levee Improvement District created under and essential to
accomplish the purposes of Section 59, Article XVI, Texas
Constitution, which owns or holds a possessory interest in land
adjoining or contiguous to a canal, ditch, flume, lateral, dam,
reservoir, or lake constructed and maintained under the provisions
of this chapter, is deemed to have secured a right to use the state
water in the canal, ditch, flume, lateral, dam, reservoir, or lake
for the purpose of irrigation of any levee owned or maintained by
such district for the purpose of preventing the compromise of the
structural integrity of such levee due to desiccation cracking or
other damage resulting from insufficient rainfall or drought.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if this Act
receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each
house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution;
otherwise, this Act takes effect September 1, 2013.