89S20348 SCR-D     By: Nichols S.B. No. 41       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to the consideration by a groundwater conservation   district of modeled available groundwater when issuing permits.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 36.1132, Water Code, is amended by   adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:          (d)  A district may not issue a permit to an applicant for the   production and transfer out of the district of groundwater if the   issuance of the permit would authorize the applicant to produce and   transfer out of the district a total amount of groundwater,   considering all permits issued by the district to the applicant, in   an amount that would exceed five percent of the total modeled   available groundwater apportioned to the district as determined by   the executive administrator.          SECTION 2.  Section 36.1132(d), Water Code, as added by this   Act, applies only to a permit issued by a groundwater conservation   district on or after the effective date of this Act.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the   last day of the legislative session.