** REVISION **
                                   SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Natural Resources

TIME & DATE:  2:00PM, Thursday, May 10, 2001

PLACE: E1.012

CHAIR: Senator J. E. "Buster" Brown

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The Committee will meet to hear the following:


HB 1281            Counts / et al.          SP: Wentworth
Relating to water utility services, rates, and tariffs.

HB 1426            Shields                  SP: Lindsay
Relating to the repeal of an obsolete provision authorizing a
temporary reduction of the royalty rate on gas produced from
certain state land.

HB 1628            Deshotel                 SP: Bernsen
Relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas
Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation to Spindletop
MHMR Services.

HB 1880            Swinford                 SP: Duncan
Relating to the creation, operation, and administration of
agricultural development districts and granting the power of
eminent domain and the authority to issue bonds.

HB 2033            Pitts                    SP: Lucio
Relating to requiring notice to purchasers of real property located
in a certificated service area of a utility service provider
regarding the cost or availability of water or sewer service.

HB 2046            Hawley                   SP: Armbrister
Relating to the ratification of the creation of and to the
administration, powers, duties, operation, and financing of the
Refugio Groundwater Conservation District.

HB 2144            Gray                     SP: Bernsen
Relating to certain purchases by the General Land Office.

HB 2310            Chisum                   SP: Zaffirini
Relating to the continuation and functions of the State Soil and
Water Conservation Board and to the election of directors of local
soil and water conservation districts.

HB 2379            Junell                   SP: Duncan
Relating to the authority of certain development corporations to
undertake water supply or conservation projects.

HB 2400            Geren                    SP: Moncrief
Relating to liability of sponsors of and participants in certain
activities involving animals.

HB 2409            Counts                   SP: Armbrister
Relating to restrictions on artificial recharge of the Edwards
Aquifer.

HB 2436            Merritt                  SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to a requirement that the Bureau of Economic Geology of
The University of Texas at Austin conduct a study of the East Texas
Oil Field.

HB 2588            Counts                   SP: Bernsen
Relating to the consideration of potential water savings under a
water conservation plan in determining the manner of distributing
water during a shortage from a water supply covered by a plan.

HB 2649            Capelo                   SP: Duncan
Relating to prohibiting the Texas Natural Resource Conservation
Commission from imposing controls more stringent than federal
controls on motor fuel content.

HB 2718            Lewis, Ron               SP: Armbrister
Relating to the recovery of certain relocation costs by a gas
utility.

HB 2761            Brown, Betty             SP: Cain
Relating to the conversion of the Kaufman County Municipal Utility
District No. 1 to Kaufman County Levee Improvement District No. 4,
operating as a levee improvement district.

HB 2855            Kuempel                  SP: Wentworth
Relating to the ratification of the creation of and to the
administration, powers, duties, operation, taxing authority, and
financing of the Southeast Trinity Groundwater Conservation
District.

HB 2859            Junell                   SP: Fraser
Relating to authorizing the Texas Board of Criminal Justice to
grant a conservation easement covering certain state property.

HB 2913            Bonnen                   SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the compensation of commissioners and the tax rate of
the Brazoria County Conservation and Reclamation District Number
Three.

HB 2997            Callegari                SP: Lucio
Relating to the implementation by the Texas Natural Resource
Conservation Commission of a program to encourage the use of
environmental management systems.

HB 3040            Geren                    SP: Lucio
Relating to air pollutant emissions permitting requirements for
shipyard facilities.

HB 3095            Counts                   SP: Haywood
Relating to the governing body and powers of the Salt Fork Water
Quality District.

HB 3111            Zbranek                  SP: Bernsen
Relating to occupational licenses and registrations issued by the
Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission.

HB 3123            Alexander                SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the standards for determining whether land qualifies
for appraisal for ad valorem tax purposes as open-space land based
on its use for wildlife management.

HB 3159            Bonnen                   SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the compensation and per diem of the commissioners of
Brazoria Drainage District Number 4.

HB 3194            Howard                   SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Fort Bend County Levee Improvement
District Number 16 and to the authorization of bonds and the levy
of taxes; providing civil penalties.

HB 3195            Howard                   SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Fort Bend County Municipal Utility
District Number 134 and to the authorization of bonds and the levy
of taxes; providing civil penalties.

HB 3543            Hilderbran               SP: Wentworth
Relating to the name, elections, duties, powers, operation, and
financing of the Headwaters Underground Water Conservation
District.

HB 3648            Hope                     SP: Bernsen
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the East Montgomery County Municipal
Utility District No. 3.

HB 3653            Ritter                   SP: Bernsen
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Jefferson County Waterway and
Navigation District and the merger of the Jefferson County
Navigation District with that district.

HB 3659            Counts                   SP: Fraser
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Wes-Tex Groundwater Conservation
District.

HB 3665            Miller                   SP: Sibley
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Cross Timbers Groundwater
Conservation District.

HB 3670            Jones, Delwin            SP: Duncan
Relating to the election and qualifications of directors of the
Lubbock County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1.

HB 3675            Bonnen                   SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Brazoria County Groundwater
Conservation District.

HB 3682            Alexander                SP: Ogden
Relating to the creation, administration, powers and duties of the
NTM Improvement District; providing authority to impose taxes and
issue bonds.

HCR 226            Williams                 SP: Bernsen
Memorializing congress to modify the tax code to allow for the
issuance of tax-exempt industrial revenue bonds for air
pollution control facilities in nonattainment areas.

SB 1752            Wentworth
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Kimble County Groundwater
Conservation District.

HB 2045            Williams                 SP: Bernsen
Relating to the disposition of impact fees by municipal utility
districts.

HB 3023            Chisum                   SP: Bivins
Relating to water quality permit applications for certain
facilities located near a sole-source drinking water supply.

HB 3315            Ramsay                   SP: Bernsen
Relating to county regulation of outdoor burning.

HB 3628            Green                    SP: Armbrister
Relating to the validation of the creation and to the
administration, powers, duties, operation, and financing of the
Hays County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 and the
provision of certain services in the district.

HB 3629            Green                    SP: Armbrister
Relating to the validation of the creation and to the
administration, powers, duties, operation, and financing of the
Hays County Water Control and Improvement District No. 2 and the
provision of certain services in the district.

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SPONSORS CHANGED AFTER LAST POSTING:

HB 2997