** REVISION **
                                   SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Natural Resources

TIME & DATE:  2:00PM, Thursday, April 26, 2001

PLACE: E1.012

CHAIR: Senator J. E. "Buster" Brown

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The Committee will meet to hear the following:


SB 1655            Sibley
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Middle Trinity Groundwater
Conservation District.

SB 1764            Zaffirini
Relating to the ratification of the creation of the McMullen
Groundwater Conservation District and to the administration,
powers, duties, operation, and financing of the district.

HJR 52            Cook                     SP: Armbrister
Proposing a constitutional amendment clearing land titles by
relinquishing and releasing any claim of sovereign ownership or
title to an interest in certain lands in Bastrop County.

HB 561            Walker                   SP: Duncan
Relating to the management of and certain actions and proceedings
regarding the Glasscock County Underground Water Conservation
District; changing the name of the district.

HB 702            Lewis, Ron               SP: Armbrister
Relating to the administration of drainage districts and the
issuance of bonds and other instruments of indebtedness by drainage
districts; increasing a criminal penalty.

HB 742            Walker                   SP: Staples
Relating to the presumed validity of a district act or proceeding.

HB 987            Oliveira                 SP: Truan
Relating to the authority of certain counties to contract with
water corporations to collect solid waste disposal service fees for
the counties.

HB 1081            Cook                     SP: Armbrister
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Colorado Valley Groundwater
Conservation District, including the district's authority to impose
taxes and issue bonds.

HB 1136            Cook                     SP: Armbrister
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Post Oak Groundwater Conservation
District.

HB 1274            Seaman                   SP: Armbrister
Relating to the ratification of the creation of and to the
administration, powers, duties, operation, and financing of the
Texana Groundwater Conservation District.

HB 1402            Cook                     SP: Armbrister
Relating to authorizing the School Land Board to approve the
release of the state's interest in land in certain circumstances.

HB 1663            Alexander                SP: Staples
Relating to the power of the East Cedar Creek Fresh Water Supply
District to produce and market agricultural products.

HB 1784            Cook                     SP: Ogden
Relating to the ratification, creation, administration, powers,
duties, operation, and financing of groundwater conservation
districts for the management of groundwater resources in the
central Carrizo-Wilcox area.

HB 2032            Walker                   SP: Bivins
Relating to the notice requirements for joint meetings of the
boards of water districts.

SB 1685            Jackson
Relating to the creation of the Galveston Seawall Conservation
District; providing the authority to impose taxes and issue bonds.

SB 1686            Jackson
Relating to the creation of the West Galveston Island Conservation
District; providing the authority to impose taxes and issue bonds.

HJR 53            Cook                     SP: Armbrister
Proposing a constitutional amendment granting the legislature
authority to release the state's interest in land that is held by a
person in good faith under color of title.

Pending Business:


SB 182            Fraser
Relating to the regulation of drinking water at certain youth
camps.

SB 868            Lindsay
Relating to the repeal of an obsolete provision authorizing a
temporary reduction of the royalty rate on gas produced from
certain state land.

SB 1573            Lindsay
Relating to the regulation of floating cabins; providing penalties.

SB 1697            Barrientos
Relating to the composition of an advisory committee to the Lower
Colorado River Authority's agricultural water conservation fund.

SB 1806            Lucio
Relating to the purchase and lease of vacant land.

SCR 22            Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Requesting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to provide maximum
flexibility to the
states in dealing with federal environmental programs.

SCR 23            Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Urging TNRCC to expand its coordination efforts to increase flexibility of
federal regulations delegated to the states.

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BILLS ADDED AFTER LAST POSTING:

SB 1685
SB 1686
HJR 53