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<br /> I ?9 iÞ <br /> Bill Number: TX74RHB 1064 Filed: 2/6/95 . .. <br /> Author: Lewis, Ron --..----- <br /> A BILL TO BEENTITIED <br /> AN ACf <br /> relating to the management of the Edwards Aquifer and the powers and duties of the Edwards <br /> Underground Water Disa1ct. <br /> ~~ BE IT ENACTED BY TIffi LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: <br /> ¡ SECTION 1. (a) Section 1.41, Chapter 626, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, 1993, is repealed, <br /> (b) Chapter 99, Acts of the 56th Legislature, Regular Session, 1959 (Article 8280-219, <br /> . Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is not repealed by operation of Section 1.41, Chapter 626, <br /> Acts of the 73rd Legislature, 1993, and remains in effect as if that section had not been <br /> passed and signed into law, <br /> SECTION 2. Chapter 99, Acts of the 56th Legislature, Regular Session, 1959 (Article 8280-219, <br /> Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Section 3D to read as follows: <br /> Sec. 3D. LOANS AND GRANTS. Under the authority gyanted by Section 52-a, Article <br /> III. Texas ConstihItion. the district mav loan or grant monev to anv person for: <br /> 1) water conservation equipment or technology for water conservation on lànd <br /> . <br /> used for cultivation or ranching in the region: <br /> - <br /> (2) water conservàtion or development projects to assist the growth of a~culture <br /> or economic development in the region: or <br /> <br /> (3) educa,tion in th.e region to promote innovation in agricultural water <br /> conservatIOn practIces. <br /> SECTION 3, The importance of this legislation and the crowded condition of the calendars in both <br /> houses create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring <br /> bills to be read on three several days in each house be .suspended, and this rule is hereby <br /> suspended, and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so <br /> enacted. <br />