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.