Bill Text: TX HB1699 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.html
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-Comm_Sub.html
By: King of Uvalde (Senate Sponsor - Flores) | H.B. No. 1699 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 11, 2023; | ||
April 12, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Local | ||
Government; May 15, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; | ||
May 15, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1699 | By: West |
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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. (a) The Board may impose: | ||
(1) a combined production and export fee on water | ||
exported from the District in an amount not to exceed 20 cents for | ||
each thousand gallons of water exported from the District; and | ||
(2) other fees as authorized by Chapter 36, Water | ||
Code. | ||
(b) A fee collected under Subsection (a)(1) of this section | ||
may only be used: | ||
(1) to maintain the operability of wells significantly | ||
affected by groundwater export projects; and | ||
(2) as authorized by Section 36.122(l), 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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