Bill Text: TX HB1699 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Evergreen Underground Water Conservation District to impose certain fees.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Effective immediately [HB1699 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB1699-Introduced.html
  88R3935 LRM-F
 
  By: King of Uvalde H.B. No. 1699
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the authority of the Evergreen Underground Water
  Conservation District to impose certain fees.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 197, Acts of the 59th Legislature,
  Regular Session, 1965, is amended by adding Section 22A to read as
  follows:
         Sec. 22A.  FEES. The Board may impose:
               (1)  an export fee on water transferred out of the
  District in an amount not to exceed 150 percent of the maximum
  wholesale water rate charged by the San Antonio Water System; and
               (2)  other fees as authorized by Chapter 36, Water
  Code.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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