HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Natural Resources

TIME & DATE:  2:00PM or upon adjournment
             Wednesday, April 21, 1999

PLACE: E1.010, Capitol Extension

CHAIR: Rep. David Counts

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To consider the following:


HB 533            Puente
Relating to the priority of a water right authorizing a transfer of water
from a river basin in this state to another river basin in the same
regional water planning area.

HB 1645            Puente
Relating to the priority of a water right authorizing a transfer of
water from a river basin in this state to another river basin.

HB 1790            Lewis, Ron
Relating to the procurement powers of navigation districts.

HB 1900            Lewis, Ron
Relating to grants from the water loan assistance fund for certain
projects.

HB 2275            Keel
Relating to the board of directors, boundaries, and financing of
the Southwest Travis County Water District.

HB 2808            Lewis, Ron
Relating to the development and management of water resources.

HB 3278            Cook
Relating to providing for representation of agricultural interests
in the water resource planning and management activities of the
state.

HB 3812            Morrison
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Victoria County Groundwater
Conservation District.

HB 3813            Kuempel
Relating to the creation of the Comal County Groundwater Management
District.

HB 3816            Cook
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties, operation, and
financing of the Wharton County Groundwater Conservation District.

HB 3817            Kuempel
Relating to the boundaries, confirmation election, administration,
powers, duties, operation, and financing of the Guadalupe County
Groundwater Conservation District.

HB 3818            Kuempel
Relating to the terms of the trustees of the Canyon Regional Water
Authority.

HB 3823            Zbranek
Relating to appointment of commissioners of the Chambers-Liberty
Counties Navigation District.

SB 76            Truan / et al.
Relating to requiring the Texas Natural Resource Conservation
Commission to develop a water supply model for the Rio Grande.

SB 272            Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to regional water planning groups.

SB 296            Jackson
Relating to the validation of all acts, governmental proceedings,
officials, bonds, and obligations of navigation districts and port
authorities.

SB 305            Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to contracts by school districts, institutions of higher
education, and state agencies for water conservation measures.

SB 657            Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the development of water management strategies for
periods of drought.

SB 658            Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the dates by which regional and state water plans must
be adopted.

SB 897            Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the eligibility of political subdivisions for loans
under the agricultural water conservation bond program.

SB 898            Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to grants from the water loan assistance fund for certain
projects.

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