Bill Text: TX HB2846 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the sale of the Allens Creek Reservoir project.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-02 - Effective immediately [HB2846 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2846-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the sale of the Allens Creek Reservoir project.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-02 - Effective immediately [HB2846 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2846-Comm_Sub.html
86R11760 SLB-F | ||
By: Larson, Metcalf, Zerwas, Price, | H.B. No. 2846 | |
Thompson of Brazoria |
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relating to the sale of the Allens Creek Reservoir project. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 1, Chapter 1291, Acts of the 76th | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 1999, is amended by adding Section | ||
1.07 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1.07. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this | ||
article, not later than January 1, 2020, the City of Houston shall | ||
enter into a contractual agreement with the Brazos River Authority | ||
to transfer to the Brazos River Authority that city's ownership | ||
interests in the Allens Creek Reservoir project, including all | ||
required water right permits, along with the responsibility to | ||
construct the project in accordance with all associated statutory | ||
requirements and deadlines. | ||
(b) Construction of the reservoir is subject to the Brazos | ||
River Authority obtaining all necessary federal permits. | ||
(c) In addition to other necessary provisions, the | ||
contractual agreement described by Subsection (a) must include | ||
provisions for: | ||
(1) the transfer of an amount not to exceed $5 million | ||
from the Brazos River Authority to the City of Houston; and | ||
(2) an option, available for a period of one year from | ||
completion of the reservoir, for the City of Houston to purchase on | ||
completion of the reservoir up to 20,000 acre-feet of water from the | ||
Brazos River Authority at the Brazos River Authority's then current | ||
system rate for raw water. | ||
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, 2019. |