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SB 332 Signed into Law

For Immediate Release: June 17, 2011

Contact: Carmen Fenton, 512-469-0171
FORT WORTH, TEXAS – The long-awaited groundwater ownership bill was signed into law by Gov. Perry today. SB 332, by Senator Troy Fraser (R-Horseshoe Bay) and Allan Ritter (R-Nederland), clarifies that landowners own the groundwater below their land as real property.
Landowner groups across Texas, including the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA), worked alongside members of the Texas Legislature to ensure SB 332 was passed and made law.
“We want to thank Chairmen Fraser and Ritter, Lt. Gov. Dewhurst, Speaker Straus and the rest of the legislature who worked hard to pass SB 332,” said Joe Parker Jr., rancher and TSCRA president. “And we want to especially thank Gov. Perry for recognizing the importance of this bill and signing it into law.”
SB 332 states that, “The legislature recognizes that a landowner owns the groundwater below the surface of the landowner’s land as real property.” The bill goes on to say that landowners are entitled to drill for and produce the groundwater below the surface of real property. SB 332 reaffirms this landowner ownership, but still allows local groundwater conservation districts the ability to manage groundwater.
SB 332 will go into effect Sept. 1, 2011.
The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association is a 134-year-old trade organization. As the largest and oldest livestock association in Texas, TSCRA represents more than 15,000 beef cattle producers, ranching families and businesses who manage approximately 4 million head of cattle on 51.5 million acres of range and pasture land, primarily in Texas and Oklahoma. TSCRA provides law enforcement and livestock inspection services, legislative and regulatory advocacy, industry news and information, insurance services and educational opportunities for its members and the industry.

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Written by:
Jaclyn Roberts
Published on:
June 20, 2011

Categories: Groundwater, Issues & Policy

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