Bill Text: TX SB1350 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to land excluded from the Hill Country Priority Groundwater Management Area.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-22 - Referred to Natural Resources [SB1350 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1350-Introduced.html
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| By: Watson | S.B. No. 1350 | |
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| relating to land excluded from the Hill Country Priority | ||
| Groundwater Management Area. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 35, Water Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Section 35.0081 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 35.0081. CERTAIN LAND EXCLUDED FROM HILL COUNTRY | ||
| PRIORITY GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT AREA. (a) The Hill Country | ||
| Priority Groundwater Management Area may not include the territory | ||
| described by Section 2 of the Act enacting this section. | ||
| (b) The boundaries and field notes contained in Section 2 of | ||
| the Act enacting this section form a closure. A mistake made in the | ||
| field notes or in copying the field notes in the legislative process | ||
| does not affect the exclusion of the territory described from the | ||
| Hill Country Priority Groundwater Management Area. | ||
| SECTION 2. The territory excluded from the Hill Country | ||
| Priority Groundwater Management Area is described as follows: | ||
| Beginning at the point of intersection of the current western | ||
| boundary of the Barton Springs-Edwards Aquifer Conservation | ||
| District and the Colorado River, then following westerly along the | ||
| southern border of the Colorado River to a point due north of the | ||
| intersection of Weston Lane and Brightman Lane, then south on that | ||
| line to said intersection, then south on Weston Lane to its | ||
| intersection with FM 2244, then west on FM 2244 to its intersection | ||
| with State Highway 71, then west on State Highway 71 until the | ||
| intersection with the extraterritorial jurisdiction limits of the | ||
| City of Bee Cave as of the effective date of this Act, then | ||
| generally south and west following the extraterritorial | ||
| jurisdiction limits of the City of Bee Cave, until it intersects | ||
| with State Highway 71, then west on Highway 71 until it intersects | ||
| with Bee Creek Road, then north on Bee Creek Road until it | ||
| intersects with Siesta Shores Drive, then due east from that | ||
| intersection to the southern boundary of Lake Travis, then eastward | ||
| following the southern boundary of Lake Travis until it intersects | ||
| the western boundary of the Barton Springs-Edwards Aquifer | ||
| Conservation District, the point of beginning. | ||
| 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, 2011. | ||
