Bill Text: TX HB723 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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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-Introduced.html
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-Introduced.html
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By: Larson | 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, | ||
Guadalupe, Nueces, Red, Rio Grande, San Antonio, and San Jacinto | ||
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. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |