HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Natural Resources TIME & DATE: 8:00 AM, Tuesday, April 14, 2009 PLACE: E2.010 CHAIR: Rep. Allan Ritter HB 1090 Parker Relating to the powers and duties of the Oak Point Water Control and Improvement District No. 4 of Denton County; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain. HB 2608 Miller, Doug Relating to the powers of a recreational district board in a county with frontage on the Guadalupe or Comal River. HB 4376 Smith, Wayne Relating to the authority of the Baytown Municipal Development District to use sales tax revenue to promote new or expanded business development. HB 4754 Kuempel Relating to the creation of the Guadalupe County Municipal Utility District No. 3; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain. HB 4273 Kuempel Relating to the issuance of a permit to a local government corporation for a public water supply project. HB 4711 Flynn Relating to the creation of the Hunt County Municipal Utility District No. 1; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain. HB 4713 Miller, Doug Relating to certain exemptions from ad valorem taxes imposed by the Cow Creek Groundwater Conservation District. HB 4717 Keffer Relating to the creation of the Maverick Improvement District of Palo Pinto County; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain. HB 4720 Anchia Relating to the creation of the Trinity River West Municipal Management District; providing the authority to impose an assessment, impose a tax, and issue bonds. HB 4723 Taylor Relating to the powers and duties of the Bayview Municipal Utility District of Galveston County; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds. HB 4726 Jackson, Jim Relating to the creation of the Cypress Waters Municipal Management District; providing the authority to impose an assessment, impose a tax, and issue bonds. HB 4727 Olivo Relating to the powers and duties of the Sienna Plantation Management District; providing authority to impose a fee or issue bonds. HB 4728 King, Phil Relating to the Parker County Utility District No. 1.

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HB 4729 Bolton Relating to changes in the territory, board of directors, and water use fees of the Barton Springs-Edwards Aquifer Conservation District. HB 4736 Phillips Relating to the creation of the Red River Groundwater Conservation District; providing authority to issue bonds. HB 4737 Phillips Relating to the creation of the Lake Texoma Municipal Utility District No. 1; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; incorporating by reference the limited power of eminent domain granted by general law. HB 4743 Gallego Relating to the creation of the Terrell County Groundwater Conservation District; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds. HB 4744 Gallego Relating to the creation of the Lajitas Utility District No. 1 of Brewster County; providing authority to impose taxes and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain. HB 4751 Laubenberg Relating to the creation of the Van Alstyne Municipal Utility District No. 2 of Collin County; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain. HB 4749 Eissler Relating to the authority of the Harris-Montgomery Counties Municipal Utility District No. 386, formerly known as Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 386, to issue bonds supported by ad valorem taxes to finance recreational facilities. HB 4757 Eissler Relating to the creation of the Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 118; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain. HB 4758 Eissler Relating to the creation of the Montgomery County Water Control and Improvement District No. 3; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain. HB 4770 Eissler Relating to the creation of the Montgomery County Water Control and Improvement District No. 2; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain. HB 1952 Callegari Relating to a municipal consent agreement regarding the inclusion of land in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality on the creation or expansion of certain municipal utility districts. HB 2536 Creighton Relating to the floodplain management account. HB 2741 Miller, Doug Relating to allowing a water and sewer utility to assess a system construction and improvement surcharge to recover certain costs associated with certain construction and improvement projects. HB 3494 Corte Relating to the establishment of desired future conditions of groundwater resources and revision of those conditions by the Texas Water Development Board. HB 3575 Madden Relating to energy and water conservation measures of state agencies.

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HB 3805 Frost Relating to the use of sediment control ponds to satisfy environmental and safety regulations at surface mining operations in the state. HB 4735 Eiland Relating to the powers of the Coastal Water Authority; affecting the authority to issue bonds. HJR 128 Ritter Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the issuance of additional general obligation bonds by the Texas Water Development Board.