TITLE: Relating to land excluded from the Hill Country Priority Groundwater Management Area.

SUMMARY: Relating to land excluded from the Hill Country Priority Groundwater Management Area.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT 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.