Bill Text: TX HB3890 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the powers and duties of the Montgomery County Water Control and Improvement District No. 2.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-13 - Considered in Local & Consent Calendars [HB3890 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3890-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Toth | H.B. No. 3890 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3890: | |||
By: Lucio III | C.S.H.B. No. 3890 |
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relating to the powers and duties of the Montgomery County Water | ||
Control and Improvement District No. 2. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 9041, Special District | ||
Local Laws Code, is amended by adding Section 9041.105 to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 9041.105. POWERS AND DUTIES RELATED TO FILL PROJECTS. | ||
(a) The district has the powers and duties provided by the general | ||
law of this state, including Chapters 49 and 57, Water Code, | ||
applicable to levee improvement districts created under Section 59, | ||
Article XVI, Texas Constitution. | ||
(b) The district may: | ||
(1) reclaim land in the district; and | ||
(2) construct works, facilities, and improvements | ||
necessary to accomplish that purpose. | ||
(c) The district may finance and contract for the | ||
construction of a fill project or for the acquisition of land for a | ||
fill project in the district, including drainage and reclamation. | ||
(d) For the district's exercise of a power of or performance | ||
of a duty of a levee improvement district as provided by Subsection | ||
(c), the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality shall consider | ||
the district to be a levee improvement district. | ||
(e) For any fill or levee project located in the district | ||
and in the watershed of the San Jacinto River Basin, the district | ||
shall obtain approval for the plan from any state or federal agency | ||
with jurisdiction to permit a project of the same type and from any | ||
municipality with a right to divert state water from a point located | ||
between the district and Lake Houston. | ||
SECTION 2. (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, one of the required recipients, 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, the | ||
lieutenant governor, and the 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 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |