Bill Text: TX HB723 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality obtain or develop updated water availability models for certain river basins.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-24 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB723 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB723-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 723 | ||
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| relating to a requirement that the Texas Commission on | ||
| Environmental Quality obtain or develop updated water availability | ||
| models for certain river basins. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 16.012, Water Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subsection (h-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (h-1) Not later than December 1, 2022, the commission shall | ||
| obtain or develop updated water availability models for the Brazos | ||
| River, Neches River, Red River, and Rio Grande river basins. The | ||
| commission may collect data from all jurisdictions that allocate | ||
| the waters of the rivers, including jurisdictions outside this | ||
| state. This subsection expires September 1, 2023. | ||
| SECTION 2. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is | ||
| required to implement a provision of this Act only if the | ||
| legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If | ||
| the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that | ||
| purpose, the commission may, but is not required to, implement a | ||
| provision of this Act using other appropriations available for that | ||
| purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 723 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 10, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 1, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 723 on May 10, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 106, Nays 0, 1 | ||
| present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 723 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 1, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
