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Amend CSHB 1541 by adding a new Section 56 as follows and 
renumber Sections accordingly:
	SECTION 56.  Section 36.002, Water Code, is amended to read 
as follows:  Sec. 36.002.  OWNERSHIP OF GROUNDWATER.  The ownership 
and rights of the owners of the land and their lessees and assigns 
in groundwater are hereby recognized, and nothing in this code 
shall be construed as depriving or divesting the owners or their 
lessees and assigns of the ownership or rights, except as those 
rights may be limited or altered by rules promulgated by a district.  
A rule promulgated by a district may not discriminate against 
owners of land or their lessees and assigns whose land is enrolled 
or participating in the federal conservation reserve program.
	SECTION 57.  Section 36.101(a), Water Code, is amended to 
read as follows:  (a)  A district may make and enforce rules, 
including rules limiting groundwater production based on tract size 
or the spacing of wells, to provide for conserving, preserving, 
protecting, and recharging of the groundwater or of a groundwater 
reservoir or its subdivisions in order to control subsidence, 
prevent degradation of water quality, or prevent waste of 
groundwater and to carry out the powers and duties provided by this 
chapter.  During the rulemaking process the board shall consider 
all groundwater uses and needs and shall develop rules that [which] 
are fair and impartial and do not discriminate between land in 
production and land enrolled or participating in the federal 
conservation reserve program.
	SECTION 58.  Section 36.113, Water Code, is amended by adding 
Subsection (h) to read as follows:  (h)  In issuing a permit for an 
existing or historic use, a district may not discriminate against 
land or wells on land enrolled or participating in the federal 
conservation reserve program.  If a district adopts rules related 
to the protection of existing or historic use, any land in a federal 
conservation reserve program shall be treated as having an existing 
and historic use.
	To the existing SECTION 57, add (e)  Except as provided by 
Subsection (c) of this section, the change in law made by this Act 
to Section 36.002, Section 36.101(a), and Section 36.113, Water 
Code, applies to all rules adopted by a groundwater conservation 
district before, on or after the effective date of this Act.  
(f)  The change in law made by this Act to Section 36.002, Section 
36.101(a), and Section 36.113, Water Code, does not apply to rules 
adopted by the Edwards Aquifer Authority.