Amend CSSB 312 (House committee printing) by adding the
following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and
appropriately renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill:
      SECTION ___. (a)  Chapter 9, Water Code, as added by Senate
Bill No. 2, Acts of the 77th Legislature,  Regular Session, 2001,
is amended by adding Section 9.017 to read as follows:
      Sec. 9.017.  DISSOLUTION OF COUNCIL AND ACCOUNT. Unless
extended by the 78th Legislature, this chapter expires and the
council and the interagency water advisory account created by this
chapter are abolished on September 1, 2003.
      (b)  If a joint committee on water infrastructure required to
conduct an interim study on water marketing, water financing, water
conveyance systems, the appropriation, reservation, or acquisition
of water for instream users, or the recodification of special laws
creating and governing river authorities is created by an Act of
the 77th Legislature at its regular session that is enacted and
becomes law, that committee shall include in its interim study the
continuation of the Texas Water Advisory Council, if that council
is created by an Act of the 77th Legislature at its regular session
that is enacted and becomes law.
      (c)  Subsection (a) of this section takes effect only if
Senate  Bill No. 2, or another Act of the 77th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2001, adding Chapter 9, Water Code, which creates the
Texas Water  Advisory Council, is enacted and becomes law.
      (d)  This section takes effect September 1, 2001.