** REVISION **
                          HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Natural Resources

TIME & DATE:  3:00PM or upon adjournment,
             Wednesday, April 30, 1997

PLACE: E2.010, Capitol Extension

CHAIR: Rep. David Counts

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To consider the following:

HB 3589            Keel, Terry
Relating to authorizing Lakeway Municipal Utility District to
exclude land or other property from its boundaries.

HB 2096            Uher
Relating to the selection of depositories by navigation districts
and port authorities.

SCR 35            Truan
Directing the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission et
al. to work with Congress and federal agencies to develop a
comprehensive management plan for the Rio Grande Basin.

SB 718            Duncan
Relating to the control of harmful excess surface water in the
extraterritorial jurisdiction of certain home-rule municipalities.

SB 1656            Truan
Relating to the authority to dissolve the Sebastian Municipal
Utility District or transfer certain of its assets and obligations.

SB 1175            Whitmire
Relating to recall elections to remove a member of the board of
directors of a municipal utility district.

SB 1888            Brown
Relating to the repeal of the authority to abolish certain
conservation and reclamation districts that become part of more
than one municipality.

SJR 17            Brown
Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to creation of the
Texas Water Development Fund II; to authorizing the Texas Water
Development Board to administer the fund and issue general
obligation bonds for the purposes of the fund; and to the flow of
funds for repayment of Texas agricultural water conservation bonds.

And to consider the following:

HB 3564            Jackson / et al.
Relating to the boundaries, confirmation election, and taxing
authority of the Clear Creek Watershed Regional Flood Control
District.

SB 863            Patterson, Jerry
Relating to precommitment approval for certain purchases of a port
authority.

HB 3571            Zbranek
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, financing, and dissolution of the Chambers County
Improvement District No. 2 and the power of certain entities to
contract with the district; granting authority to issue bonds.

HB 3579            Zbranek
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, and authority of
the Chambers County-Cedar Bayou Navigation District.

HB 3567            Raymond
Relating to the addition of territory to, the board of directors
of, and disannexation procedures for the Duval County Conservation
and Reclamation District.

HB 2403            Keel, Terry
Relating to the board of directors, boundaries, and financing of
the Southwest Travis County Water District.

HB 3574            Lewis, Ron
Relating to the election and terms of office of directors of the
Jefferson County Water Control and Improvement District No. 10.

HB 3387            Gallego
Relating to the duties and operations of a watermaster's office,
reimbursement of the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission
for the compensation and necessary expenses of a watermaster's
office and creation of the watermaster fund.

HB 3586            Eiland
Relating to the election of the board of supervisors of the Clear
Creek Drainage District of Galveston County.


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HB 3586